1823 in Ireland

Events

• Catholic Association formed by Daniel O'Connell, to further Catholic emancipation.
• 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.

Arts and literature

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

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).

References

References

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4. Wright, George Newenham. (1825). "An Historical Guide to the City of Dublin". Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy.