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Events from the year1860 in Ireland.

• 25 February – £11,000 collected at church doors in Dublin to finance the Pope's defence against theRisorgimento in Italy; £80,000 collected nationwide (the equivalent of several millions of modern-day Euros).^[1]
• 28 August – The Passing of theLandlord and Tenant Law Amendment (Ireland) Act 1860 ("Deasy's Land Act"),^[2] intended to reform tenants' rights.
• September –Myles O'Reilly's "Battalion of St Patrick" assist in the unsuccessful defence ofSpoleto against the Risorgimento.
• 3 November – The CatholicBallaghaderreen Cathedral is consecrated and opened.
• 11 November –Kildare Street Club, Dublin destroyed by fire.
• 21–23 November – Partry evictions, County Mayo: 68 families turned out of their houses by Thomas Plunket, Church of Ireland Bishop of Tuam.^[1]
• Construction begins on theRoman Catholic church that will becomeSt Peter's Cathedral, Belfast.

• 27 March – the Irish-writtenmelodramaThe Colleen Bawn, or The Brides of Garryowen, written by and starringDion Boucicault, is first performed atLaura Keene's Theatre,New York.^[3]
• Dr.George Sigerson'sThe Poets and Poetry of Munster is published.
• Anthony Trollope's novelCastle Richmond, set during theGreat Famine, is completed and published in England.^[4]

• 1 January –John Cassidy, sculptor and painter (died1939).
• 17 January –Douglas Hyde, member of theSeanad in 1922 and 1938; firstPresident of Ireland and Gaelic scholar (died1949).
• 1 June –Hugh Thomson, illustrator (died1920).
• 8 June –Alicia Boole Stott, mathematician (died1940).
• 25 June –John Danaher, soldier, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1881 nearPretoria,South Africa (died1919).
• 23 July –Thomas Preston, scientist (died1900).
• 8 December –Amanda McKittrick Ros, born Anna McKittrick, novelist and poet noted for her purple prose (died1939).^[5]
• 25 December –Patrick S. Dinneen, lexicographer and historian (died1934).

• 12 February –William Francis Patrick Napier, soldier and military historian (born1785).
• 17 March –Anna Brownell Jameson, writer (born1794).
• 23 October –Peter Boyle de Blaquière, politician inCanada and first chancellor of theUniversity of Toronto (born1783).
• 24 November –George Croly, poet, novelist, historian and divine (born1780)^[6]

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