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Events from the year 1848 in Ireland. ==Events== *Ongoing - Great Famine: Potato blight returns and outbreaks of cholera are reported. *February - John Mitchel publishes ''The United Irishman'', a weekly Irish nationalist newspaper. It is suppressed and Mitchel arrested and convicted under the Treason Felony Act 1848 on 26 May and sentenced to transportation to Australia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=John Mitchel (1815-1875) )〕 *7 March - Thomas Francis Meagher flies the Irish Tricolour in Waterford, the first recorded usage of the flag which is now the national flag of the Republic of Ireland. *25 April - Andrew Graham discovers asteroid 9 Metis from politician Edward Joshua Cooper's private Markree Observatory in County Sligo, the first (and until 2008 only) discovery from Ireland of a minor planet. *12 May - Kilkenny railway station opened. *June - Medical students Kevin Izod O'Doherty and Richard D'Alton Williams, and chemist Thomas Antisell, publish the ''Irish Tribune'', a weekly Irish nationalist newspaper. It is suppressed after five issues and the editors arrested on 10 July. O'Doherty is convicted under the Treason Felony Act after a third trial on 30 October and sentenced to transportation to Australia; Williams is acquitted two days later. *July - Famine victims on outdoor relief peak this month at almost 840,000 people.〔 *22 July - Government suspends habeas corpus, thus Young Irelanders can be imprisoned on proclamation without trial. *29 July - Young Irelander Rebellion at Ballingarry in County Tipperary is broken up by the Irish Constabulary. *October - Patrick Kennedy (1823–1858) starts out from County Wexford to emigrate to the United States where he will establish the politically significant Kennedy family. *Completion of palm houses at Kew Gardens, London, and the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, by Richard Turner of Dublin. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1848 in Ireland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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