1823 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1823 in Ireland.
Events
- Catholic Association formed by Daniel O'Connell, to further Catholic emancipation.[1][2]
- October â 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.[3]
Arts and literature
- 5 August â the Royal Hibernian Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture is established by letters patent in Dublin.[4]
Births
- 1 January â Edward Butler, lawyer and politician in Australia (died 1879).
- 12 January â James Donnelly, Bishop of the Diocese of Clogher (died 1893).
- 23 January â Abraham Fitzgibbon, railway civil engineer in the British empire (died 1887 in England)
- 26 March â Ann Jellicoe, educationalist (died 1880).
- 7 July â John Kells Ingram, poet, scholar, economist and historian of economic thought (died 1907).
- 7 September â Kevin Izod O'Doherty, transported to Australia in 1849, physician and politician (died 1905).
- 10 September â James O'Connor, first Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Omaha (died 1890).
- 16 September â 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 â Charles Wolfe, poet (born 1791).
- 17 September â John Shaw, Captain in the United States Navy (born 1773).