1805 in Ireland

This is a list of events from the year 1805 in Ireland

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Centuries:
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  • 20th
  • 21st
Decades:
  • 1780s
  • 1790s
  • 1800s
  • 1810s
  • 1820s
See also: 1805 in the United Kingdom
Other events of 1805
List of years in Ireland
1805 Irish penny, bearing George III's portrait.

Events
  • August – rebel leader Michael Dwyer, held without sentence in Kilmainham Gaol, is transported to Sydney (Australia), where he lands as a free settler in February 1806.
  • 21 October – Battle of Trafalgar: a British Royal Navy fleet led by Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain. Almost 4,000 of the 18,000 men on the British ships were born in Ireland.[1]

Publications
  • Mary Tighe's poem Psyche, or the Legend of Love

Births
  • 2 January – John Hogan, businessman and United States Representative from Missouri (died 1892).
  • 5 April – Samuel Forde, painter from Cork (died 1828).
  • 4 August – William Rowan Hamilton, mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (died 1865).
    Full date unknown
    • Jon Riley, deserter from United States Army, a founder of the San Patricios (died 1850).
    • Anthony Coningham Sterling, British Army officer and historian (died 1871).
    • William Thompson, naturalist (died 1852).

Deaths
  • 27 April – William Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty, politician and statesman (born 1741).
  • 7 May – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, British Whig statesman, Home Secretary in 1782 and Prime Minister 1782–1783 (born 1737).
  • 18 June – Arthur Murphy, editor and writer (born 1727).
  • 27 July – Brian Merriman, Irish language poet and teacher (b. c. 1749).
  • August – John Talbot Dillon, traveller and historical writer (b. c. 1740).
  • 8 December – Rose ffrench, 1st Baroness ffrench.

See also

References
  1. "Trafalgar ancestors". The National Archives (United Kingdom). Retrieved 2012-10-17.
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