1823 in Ireland

Events from the year 1823 in Ireland.

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See also: 1823 in the United Kingdom
Other events of 1823
List of years in Ireland

Events
  • Catholic Association formed by Daniel O'Connell, to further Catholic Emancipation.[1][2]
  • October – HMS Essex, a former American frigate of 1799, is hulked at Cork to serve as a prison ship; from 1824 to 1834 she serves in this capacity at Kingstown.[3]

Arts and literature
  • 5 August – the Royal Hibernian Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture is established by letters patent in Dublin.[4]

Births
  • 1 January – Edward Butler, lawyer and politician in Australia (died 1879).
  • 12 January – James Donnelly, Bishop of the Diocese of Clogher (died 1893).
  • 23 January – Abraham Fitzgibbon, railway civil engineer in the British empire (died 1887 in England)
  • 26 March – Ann Jellicoe, educationalist (died 1880).
  • 7 July – John Kells Ingram, poet, scholar, economist and historian of economic thought (died 1907).
  • 7 September – Kevin Izod O'Doherty, transported to Australia in 1849, physician and politician (died 1905).
  • 10 September – James O'Connor, first Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Omaha (died 1890).
  • 16 September – James O'Reilly, lawyer and politician in Canada (died 1875).
    Full date unknown
    • Thomas Devin Reilly, revolutionary, Young Irelander and journalist (died 1854).
    • John Ryan, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India, killed in action (died 1858).

Deaths
  • 21 February – Charles Wolfe, poet (born 1791).
  • 17 September – John Shaw, Captain in the United States Navy (born 1773).

See also
  • 1823 in Scotland
  • 1823 in Wales

References
  1. Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 250.
  2. "Parades and Marches – Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events". Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Retrieved 2010-01-28.
  3. Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Barnsley: Seaforth. pp. 188–189. ISBN 1861762461.
  4. Wright, George Newenham (1825). An Historical Guide to the City of Dublin. Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy. p. 239.
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