1806 in Ireland

Events

• 10 April – Sir Arthur Wellesley marries Kitty Pakenham, daughter of the Earl of Longford, in the temporary St. George's Church built on Whitworth Road in Dublin.
• American engraver Henry Pelham, agent for Lord Lansdowne's Irish estates, is drowned from a boat while superintending the erection of a martello tower in the Kenmare River.

Arts and literature

• John Wilson Croker (anonymously) publishes his mock-heroic verse satire on Dublin socio-political life The Amazoniad; or, Figure and Fashion.
• Sydney Owenson publishes her epistolary novel The Wild Irish Girl: a National Tale.
• Samuel Thomson publishes his third volume of verse Simple Poems on a Few Subjects.
• The English architect George Papworth moves to Dublin.

Births

• 21 January – William Quarter, first Roman Catholic bishop of Chicago (died 1848).
• 25 January – Daniel Maclise, painter (died 1870).
• 10 May - James Shields, Irish American politician and United States Army officer (died 1879 in the United States)
• 31 May – Patrick Leahy, Archbishop of Cashel (died 1875).
• 25 July – John O'Donovan, scholar and first historic topographer (died 1861).
• 1 August – Edward Crofton, 2nd Baron Crofton, Conservative politician (died 1869).
• 17 August – Peter Richard Kenrick, first Catholic archbishop west of the Mississippi River (died 1896).
• 20 August – Archibald Acheson, 3rd Earl of Gosford, Member of Parliament for Armagh (died 1864).
• 31 August – Charles Lever, novelist (died 1872).
• September – Samuel Davidson, biblical scholar (died 1898).
• 15 October – William Clements, 3rd Earl of Leitrim, nobleman and landowner (died 1878).
• 3 November – Robert Molesworth, judge in Australia (died 1890).
• 4 December – John T. Graves, mathematician (died 1870).
• ;Full date unknown
• :*Simon Byrne, prize-fighter (died 1833).

Deaths

• 22 February – James Barry, painter (born 1741).
• 31 May – George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, statesman, colonial administrator and diplomat (born 1737).
• 11 July – James Smith, lawyer and politician in the United States, signatory of the U.S. Declaration of Independence (born 1719).
• 9 September – William Paterson, judge in the United States, signatory of the U.S. Constitution (born 1745).
• 18 September – Patrick Cotter O'Brien, known as the Bristol Giant and the Irish Giant (born 1760).
• 30 September – William Fortescue, 1st Earl of Clermont, politician (born 1722).

References

References

1. Richard, Holmes. (2002). "Wellington: The Iron Duke". HarperCollins.
2. (1961-12-14). "St. George's church re-opened". [[The Irish Times]].
3. (2004). "The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature". Oxford University Press.