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| Date | | | | | 21-Jan-1851 | | An address to the Crown, and petitions to both Houses of Parliament, against the contemplated abolition of the Irish Vice-royalty, unanimously adopted by the Town Council. | | | 25-Feb-1851 | | Conference of the Roman Catholic Prelates at the Presbytery in Marlborough-street, to take into consideration the course to be adopted in referendum to the Ecclesiastical Titles' Assumption Bill, at which it was unanimously resolved to present a memorial to the Queen, to address the Catholics of Ireland, and to petition Parliament against the Bill. | | | 4-Mar-1851 | | The Repeal Association, which, at the commencement of the agitation on the subject of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, had taken the name of the Catholic and Repeal Association, adjourns its meetings sine die- | | | 31-Mar-1851 | | The Census of the City of Dublin taken. According to the abstract published by the Commissioners, the population of Dublin at this date was: males, 119,183 ; females, 139,178; total, 258,361; being an increase of 25,635 on the Census of 1841. The number of families was, 57,622; inhabiting 22,270 houses ; the number of uninhabited houses, 1,920, and the number building, 121; total, 24,317. | | | 29-Apr-1851 | | Meeting of Roman Catholics in the Round Room of the Rotunda, to protest against the Ecclesiastical Titles' Assumption Bill. | | | 5-May-1851 | | The canons and decrees of the Roman Catholic Synod of Thurles ratified by the Pope, and measures taken for the establishment of- a Roman Catholic University in Ireland. | | | 1-Aug-1851 | | The Midland Great Western Railway opened for traffic to Galway. | | | 2-Mar-1852 | | Departure from Dublin of His Excellency the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Lieutenant, consequent on the resignation of Lord John Russell's ministry. | | | 10-Mar-1852 | | Arrival in Dublin of his Excellency the Earl of Eglinton and Winton, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. | | | 2-Apr-1852 | | Dr. Cullen elected successor to the late Archbishop Murray, by the parish priests of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin. | |
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