1814 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1814 in Ireland.
Events
- 1 February â Royal Belfast Academical Institution opened as a school and college.[1]
- 18 June â improved navigation of River Shannon between Limerick and Killaloe opens.[2]
- 25 December â inauguration of Chapel Royal, Dublin, designed by Francis Johnston.
- Apprentice Boys of Derry Club formed (although the siege of Derry has been celebrated from the 17th century).[3]
- William Shaw Mason's A Statistical Account or Parochial Survey of Ireland, drawn up from the communications of the clergy begins publication in Dublin.[4]
Arts and literature
- 27 May â Harriet Smithson makes her stage debut at the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin, as Albina Mandeville in Frederick Reynolds's The Will.[5]
- Sydney, Lady Morgan, publishes her novel O'Donnell.
Births
- 10 January â Aubrey Thomas de Vere, poet and critic (died 1902).
- 9 May â John Brougham, actor and dramatist (died 1880).
- 18 August â David Moriarty, Roman Catholic Bishop of Kerry (died 1877).
- 28 August â Sheridan Le Fanu, writer (died 1873).
- 3 September â Richard Graves MacDonnell, lawyer, judge and colonial governor (died 1881).
- 14 October â Thomas Osborne Davis, lawyer and writer, author of the song "A Nation Once Again" (died 1845).
- 3 December â William Fitzgerald, Church of Ireland Bishop of Killaloe (died 1883).
- Full date unknown
- Daniel Devlin, businessman and City Chamberlain in New York (died 1867).
- John Lalor, journalist and author (died 1856).
- Mary O'Connell, nurse during the American Civil War (died 1897).
- Charles O'Hea, Catholic Priest, baptised Ned Kelly and ministered to him before he was hanged in 1880 (died 1903).
- John Purcell, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India, later killed in action (died 1857).
Deaths
- 8 May (suicide) â William Nelson Gardiner, eccentric engraver and bookseller (born 1766).
- 17 June â Henry Tresham, historical painter (born c.1751).
- 9 July â Daniel Delany, Bishop of Kildare and Leighton, founder of two Catholic religious congregations and St Patrick's College, Carlow.
- 10 August â George Ogle, politician (born 1742).
- 21 November â Juan Mackenna, soldier of fortune (born 1771).
- 9 December â Arturo O'Neill, soldier of fortune (born 1736).
- 20 December â Robert Uniacke Fitzgerald, lawyer, soldier and politician (born 1751).
- Geoffrey Font, centenarian (born 1709).