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{{Refimprove|date=August 2012}}{{YearInIrelandNav | 1851 }}Events from the year 1851 in Ireland. Events- 30 March – the United Kingdom Census shows that, as part of the legacy of the Great Famine, the population of Ireland has fallen to 6,575,000 – a drop of 1,600,000 in ten years.[1][2] This is the first census to note use of the Irish language.[3]
- 1 August – Midland Great Western Railway extended from Mullingar to Galway.[3]
- 7 August – Poor Relief (Ireland) Act provides for the establishment of dispensaries.[3]
- Construction of MacNeill's Egyptian Arch, a railway bridge near Newry on the Dublin-Belfast railway line is completed.
Arts and literature{{Empty section|date=July 2010}}Sport{{Empty section|date=July 2010}}Births- 8 January – William McDonnell, 6th Earl of Antrim, peer (died 1918).
- 14 March – Paddy Ryan, boxer (died 1900).
- 17 March – Ted Sullivan, Major League Baseball player and manager (died 1929 in the United States).
- 21 March – Henry Prittie, 4th Baron Dunalley, peer and Lord Lieutenant of County Tipperary 1905–1922 (died 1927).
- 4 April – James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy, lawyer, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, first Chairman of Seanad Éireann (died 1931).
- 22 May – William Moxley, representative from Illinois' 6th congressional district (died 1938 in the United states).
- 4 September – John Dillon, land reform agitator, Irish Home Rule activist, nationalist politician, MP and last leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party (died 1927).
- 3 December – George Noble Plunkett, nationalist, politician, museum curator (died 1948).
Deaths- 23 May – Richard Lalor Sheil, politician, writer and orator (born 1791).
- 1 September – Anne Devlin, Irish republican and housekeeper to Robert Emmet (born 1780).
Census- Surviving 1851 Census Returns of Ireland
References1. ^{{cite book|first=David|last=Ross|year=2002|title=Ireland: History of a Nation|edition=New|location=New Lanark|publisher=Geddes & Grosset|isbn=1842051644|pages=216, 313}}
2. ^{{cite book|first=Cormac|last=Ó Gráda|title=Ireland’s Great Famine: Interdisciplinary Perspectives|publisher=University College Dublin Press|year=2006|isbn=1-904558-57-7|page=3}}
3. ^1 2 {{cite book|editor=Moody, T. W.|title=A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1989|isbn=978-0-19-821744-2|display-editors=etal}}
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