page_title: 1864 in Ireland
section_title: Events
hierarchical_section_title: 1864 in Ireland / Events
caption_attribution_description: National Gallery of Ireland.
context_page_description: Events from the year 1864 in Ireland.
context_section_description: 1 January – civil registry of births, deaths and marriages replaces parish church registers.
  30 January – opening of the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin.
  May – Theobald Jones presents his Report on the progress made in collecting the Irish lichens to the Natural History Society of Dublin.
  December – Jane Wilde is found to have libelled Mary Travers; Travers is awarded only a nominal farthing in damages but Lady and the newly-knighted Sir William Wilde have to pay substantial costs.
  Foundation of the Munster Bank, later rescued as the Munster & Leinster Bank, a constituent of Allied Irish Banks.
caption: National Gallery of Ireland
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