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