1821 in Ireland

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[edit] Events

• 28 December - Sandycove Lifeboat disaster - four lifeboatmen drowned attempting to rescue Ellen of Liverpool

[edit] Births

• 20 January - Dennis Mahony, one of the founders of the Dubuque Herald (now the Telegraph Herald), a newspaper in Dubuque, Iowa (d.1879).
• 20 February - Miles Gerard Keon, journalist, novelist, colonial secretary and lecturer (d.1875).
• 8 March - James Sheridan Muspratt, research chemist and teacher (d.1871).
• 28 March - William Howard Russell, journalist (d.1907).
• 20 July - Michael Hannan, Archbishop in Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halifax, Nova Scotia (d.1882).
• 21 December - Samuel Haughton, scientific writer (d.1897).

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• Robert O'Hara Burke, explorer of Australia (d.1861).
• William Connor Magee, Anglican clergyman, Archbishop of York (d.1891).

[edit] Deaths

• 6 April - Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry, politician (b.1739).
• 15 June - James Cuffe, 1st Baron Tyrawley, peer.
• 4 October - Edward Hudson, dentist (b.1743).

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• John Barrett, clergyman and Hebrew scholar (b.1753).