1826 in Ireland

Events

• 5 January – Irish currency assimilated to that of Great Britain under terms of the Currency Act 1825.
• 12 July – in the United Kingdom General Election, four counties elect supporters of Catholic emancipation.
• The Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act is passed.
• First life-boat stationed in Ireland by the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, at Arklow.

Arts and literature

• October – Tyrone Power gets his break as a principal Irish character actor at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London.

Births

• March
  • James P. Boyd, businessman and politician in Ontario (died 1890).
  • John Farrell, soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry at the 1854 Charge of the Light Brigade (died 1865).
• 13 August – Robert Spencer Dyer Lyons, physician and politician (died 1886).
• 4 October – Richard Smyth, Presbyterian minister, academic and politician (died 1878).
• 2 November – Henry John Stephen Smith, mathematician (died 1883).
• 14 November – Michael Morris, 1st Baron Killanin, jurist, politician, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland (died 1901).
• ;Full date unknown
• :*Robert Cain, brewer and businessman (died 1907).
• :*Morgan Crofton, mathematician (died 1915).
• :*Denis Dempsey, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (died 1896).
• :*Samuel Hill, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India, later killed in action (died 1863).
• :*John Lucas, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1861 in New Zealand (died 1892).
• :*Patrick McHale, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (died 1866).
• :*Alexander Wright, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea (died 1858).

Deaths

• 27 June – Mary Leadbeater, writer (born 1758).
• 25 September – Judge Fulton, judge, surveyor, politician, and founder of the village of Bass River, Nova Scotia (born 1739).
• 9 October – Michael Kelly, actor, singer and composer (born 1762).

References

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