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| Date | | | | | 1839 | | Dublin visited by an awful storm on the night of the sixth January, which extended throughout the country, causing great destruction of life and property; the river Liffey rose many feet, overflowing the quay walls in several places. On the same night the Bethesda church and surrounding houses in Dorset-street, were consumed by fire. Calamitous fire in Mary-street, by which six persons lost their lives. The destruction of property was estimated at £70,000. The lord mayor, and a deputation from the Corporation of Dublin, presented a petition at the bar of the House of Commons against the Irish Municipal Reform Bill. The Irish Art-Union, for the encouragement of the fine arts, instituted. The theatre, Abbey-street, burned. The Zoological Gardens, Portobello, opened. Baptist Chapel, Lower Abbey-street, opened for Divine service. Institute of Irish Architects for the improvement of Irish Architecture founded. Protestant Episcopal Church, Lower Gardiner-street, opened for Divine service. Dublin Total Abstinence Society founded by the Very Rev. Dr. Spratt. | | | 1840 | | Scotch Church, Adelaide-road, founded. Wesleyan Methodist Meeting-house, Hendrick-street, rebuilt. New statute granted to Trinity College, Dublin, by which ten new fellowships were founded, and the celibacy of the fellows abolished. Royal Agricultural Society for Ireland founded. Foundation of St. Audoen's Roman Catholic Church, High-street, laid. | | | 1841 | | Meetings held in the early part of this year to revive Irish manufactures. The first Town Council elected, under the new Corporation Act, on the 26th October; and Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M.P., sworn in Lord Mayor on the 8th November. Population of Dublin - inhabited houses, 20,109; families, 49,511; persons, 232,726. Irish Archaeological Society, for the publication of works illustrative of the ancient history and antiquities of Ireland instituted. | | | 22-Mar-1842 | | The first stone of the Wesleyan Centenary Chapel, Stephen's-green, south, laid. The first stone of the Episcopal Church, Wellington-square, Harcourt-street, laid, The Irish Collegiate School and six Irish Scholarships established in the University for the encouragement of the Irish language. First stone of the National Bank of Ireland, College-green, laid. | | | 1843 | | The Wesleyan Centenary Chapel, Stephen's-green south, opened for divine worship. The Atmospheric Railway between Kingstown and Dalkey opened to the public. A peal of joy-bells hung in St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church, Arran-quay. | | | 7-Oct-1843 | | Public meeting a t Clontarf, to be held on 8th October, prevented by Proclamation. | | | 14-Oct-1843 | | Informations lodged against Daniel O'Connell, M.P., John O'Connell, M.P., Rev. Thomas Tierney, Rev Peter James Tyrrell, Richard Barrett, Charles Gavan Duffy, John Gray, Thomas Matthew Ray, and Thomas Steele, for a Misdemeanour. | | | 14-Nov-1843 | | Proceedings on the Information commenced in the Court of Queen's Bench. | | | 1844 | | Dublin and Drogheda Railway opened to the public. | | | 15-Jan-1844 | | Trial of Daniel O'Connell and others commences. | |
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