1862 in Ireland

Events from the year 1862 in Ireland.

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1 January â a formal partnership between Edward Harland and Gustav Wilhelm Wolff establishes the Belfast shipbuilders Harland and Wolff.^[1]^[2]
12 May â the Ulster Hall, a concert hall in Belfast, is opened.^[3]
July â the Glasgow & Stranraer Steam Packet Company's PS Briton enters service on the first Stranraer to Larne ferry service.^[4]
10 September â Eliza Lynch becomes de facto First Lady of Paraguay.
3 December â the Midland Great Western Railway extends from Longford to Sligo.^[5]
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- The Dublin Fire Brigade is established under the Dublin Corporation Fire Brigades Act.
- Publication of The Leadbeater Papers, containing the first edition of the Annals of Ballitore by Mary Leadbeater (died 1826).

2 April â Bryan Mahon, British Army general, Commander-in-Chief, Ireland and Senator (died 1930).
27 May â John Edward Campbell, mathematician (died 1924 in Oxford).
10 June â John de Robeck, admiral in the British Navy (died 1928).
11 June â Violet Florence Martin, author (died 1915).
14 June â John J. Glennon, Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Louis and Cardinal (died 1946).
21 September â Sir Thomas Esmonde, 11th Baronet, peer, MP and Seanad member (died 1935).
14 October â Samuel Cunningham, politician and Irish Privy Councillor (died 1946).
6 November â Edward Bulfin, British general during World War I (died 1939).
15 December â Jack (Nonpareil) Dempsey, boxer (died 1896).
Gertrude Kelly, surgeon and radical activist in New York (died 1934 in the United States).

6 April â Fitz James O'Brien, author (born 1828).
21 May â John Drew, actor (born 1827).
18 July â John George de la Poer Beresford, Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland) (born 1773).
30 July â Eugene O'Curry, scholar (born 1794).
30 November â James Sheridan Knowles, dramatist and actor (born 1784).