1825 in Ireland

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
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See also:	1825 in the United Kingdom; Other events of 1825 ; List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1825 in Ireland.

Events

9 March – the Unlawful Societies (Ireland) Act proscribes both the Catholic Association and the Orange Order.[1][2]
May – the British Ordnance Survey begins its survey of Ireland.[3]
27 June – the Excise Licences Act raises Irish excise licences to bring them in line with those of Great Britain.[1]
Foundation of the Provincial Bank of Ireland.
Portlaw in County Waterford is established as a model village by the Malcomson family, Quaker cotton mill owners.
Paddle steamers (Dasher and Arrow) first introduced on the Portpatrick to Donaghadee packet service.[4][5]
Over 1,800 Irish residents leave Cork to emigrate to Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, in a scheme administered by Canadian trader and politician Peter Robinson.

April – the first series of Tales by the O'Hara Family, by John and Michael Banim, is published.
May – the Royal Hibernian Academy holds its first exhibition of art in Dublin.
Thomas Crofton Croker publishes the first volumes of his Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland.[1]
Charles Maturin's novel Leixlip Castle is published posthumously.
William Hamilton Maxwell's military adventure novel O'Hara is published.
Sydney, Lady Morgan, publishes Absenteeism.

26 January – James Stephens, founding member of the Fenian Brotherhood movement (died 1901).
13 April – D'Arcy McGee, journalist and politician in Canada (assassinated 1868).
16 May
- Valentine Browne, 4th Earl of Kenmare, peer (died 1905).
- John McGovern, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India (died 1888).
17 June – Richard Harte Keatinge, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Chundairee, India (died 1904).
4 November – Frederick Dobson Middleton, British Army general and commander of the Canadian Militia in the North-West Rebellion (died 1898).
Full date unknown
- William Dowling, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (died 1887).
- Myles O'Reilly, Catholic soldier and writer (died 1880).

6 February – John Connolly, second bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of New York (born 1750).
22 August – Richard Hely-Hutchinson, 1st Earl of Donoughmore, politician (born 1756).
John Templeton, naturalist and botanist (born 1766).

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