1838 in Ireland

Events

• 4–22 April – the paddle steamer SS Sirius (1837) makes the Transatlantic Crossing to New York from Cork in eighteen days, though not using steam continuously.
• 15 August – following a year of widespread hunger the government institutes relief work and reduces the tithe rent for the poor by the Poor Law and Tithe Acts.
• Foundation of a temperance society in Cork known as the Knights of Father Mathew by Theobald Mathew, a capuchin friar.

Births

• January – Richard W. Dowling, victorious Confederate commander at the Second Battle of Sabine Pass in the American Civil War (died 1867 in the United States).
• 24 January – Ricard O'Sullivan Burke, nationalist, Fenian activist, Union soldier in the American Civil War, U.S. Republican Party campaigner and public works engineer (died 1922 in the United States).
• 2 February – Nathaniel Burslem, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1860 at the Taku Forts, China (died 1865).
• 13 February – Michael Sullivan, physician, professor and politician in Canada (died 1915).
• 26 March – William Edward Hartpole Lecky, historian (died 1903 in England).
• 3 June – Daniel O'Reilly, U.S. Representative from New York (died 1911 in the United States).
• 23 June – James Gildea, soldier and philanthropist, founder of the Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association (died 1920).
• 5 July – William Robinson, gardener (died 1935).
• 8 July – John Burke, Union colonel in the American Civil War (died 1914 in the United States).
• 28 July – Augustus Nicholas Burke, artist (died 1891).
• 24 August – James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn, politician and diplomat (died 1913).
• 11 September – John Ireland, third bishop and first Archbishop of Saint Paul, Minnesota (died 1918 in the United States).
• 18 September – Sir Thomas Drew, architect, first designer of St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast (died 1910).
• 1 November – Anthony Traill, provost of Trinity College Dublin (died 1914).
• 18 December – Michael Thomas Stenson, politician in Canada (died 1912).
• ;Full date unknown
• :*John Philip Nolan, soldier, landowner and politician (died 1912).
• :*Dudley Stagpoole, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1863 near Poutoko in Taranaki, New Zealand (died 1911 in England).

Deaths

• Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin, author, teacher, draper and politician (born 1780).

References

References

1. "Steamship Curaçao".
2. (1967). "The Course of Irish History". Mercier Press.
3. "William Edward Hartpole Lecky {{!}} Irish historian".
4. [http://www.artnet.com/artist/687571/augustus-nicholas-burke.html/ Augustus Burke – Artnet]
5. [http://www.ilab.org/db/book718_916655.html/ ABERCORN: James Hamilton]{{Dead link. (February 2019)
6. [http://www.dia.ie/architects/view/1650/ Thomas Drew – Dictionary of Irish Architects]