1806 in Ireland
Events from the year 1806 in Ireland.
Events
- 10 April – Sir Arthur Wellesley marries Kitty Pakenham, daughter of the Earl of Longford, in the temporary St. George's Church built on Whitworth Road in Dublin.
- American engraver Henry Pelham, agent for Lord Lansdowne's Irish estates, is drowned from a boat while superintending the erection of a martello tower in the Kenmare River.
Arts and literature
- John Wilson Croker publishes his mock-heroic verse satire on Dublin socio-political life The Amazoniad; or, Figure and Fashion.
- Sydney Owenson publishes her epistolary novel The Wild Irish Girl: a National Tale.
- Samuel Thomson publishes his third volume of verse Simple Poems on a Few Subjects.
- The English architect George Papworth moves to Dublin.
Births
- 21 January – William Quarter, first Roman Catholic bishop of Chicago.
- 25 January – Daniel Maclise, painter.
- 10 May - James Shields, Irish American politician and United States Army officer
- 31 May – Patrick Leahy, Archbishop of Cashel.
- 25 July – John O'Donovan, scholar and first historic topographer.
- 1 August – Edward Crofton, 2nd Baron Crofton, Conservative politician.
- 17 August – Peter Richard Kenrick, first Catholic archbishop west of the Mississippi River.
- 20 August – Archibald Acheson, 3rd Earl of Gosford, Member of Parliament for Armagh.
- 31 August – Charles Lever, novelist.
- September – Samuel Davidson, biblical scholar.
- 15 October – William Clements, 3rd Earl of Leitrim, nobleman and landowner.
- 3 November – Robert Molesworth, judge in Australia.
- 4 December – John T. Graves, mathematician.
- ;Full date unknown
- :*Simon Byrne, prize-fighter.
Deaths
- 22 February – James Barry, painter.
- 31 May – George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, statesman, colonial administrator and diplomat.
- 11 July – James Smith, lawyer and politician in the United States, signatory of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
- 9 September – William Paterson, judge in the United States, signatory of the U.S. Constitution.
- 18 September – Patrick Cotter O'Brien, known as the Bristol Giant and the Irish Giant.
- 30 September – William Fortescue, 1st Earl of Clermont, politician.