1817 in Ireland

Events from the year 1817 in Ireland.

Events

26 May – completion of Royal Canal throughout from Dublin to the River Shannon at Tarmonbarry.
31 May – first stone of new pier at the port of Dunleary is laid.
16 June – Poor Law Employment Act empowers the Lord Lieutenant to appoint commissioners of public works to supervise construction of public works to relieve unemployment financed by mortgages of rates.
17 June – first stone of Wellington Testimonial, Dublin, is laid in Phoenix Park.
11 July – an act to provide for the establishment of asylums for the lunatic poor in Ireland.
c. July – tradesman Jeffery Sedwards establishes the Skibbereen Abstinence Society, considered the first organisation devoted to teetotalism in Europe.
7 August – first stone of Wellington Column is laid in Trim, County Meath.
30 September – national fever committee appointed to distribute government relief to victims of the typhus epidemic.
Edward O'Reilly's Irish-English Dictionary is published.

19 April – Charles Wolfe's poem The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna is first published in the Newry Telegraph.
27 May – Thomas Moore's poem Lalla-Rookh: an Oriental romance is first published in London.
June – Maria Edgeworth's novel Ormond: a tale is first published in London together with Harrington.

6 January – J. J. McCarthy, architect.
10 March – Patrick Neeson Lynch, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston .
26 May – Denis Florence MacCarthy, poet, translator and biographer.
3 June – Robert Warren, lawyer and politician.
12 July – William Henry Gregory, politician and writer.
26 August – John Willoughby Crawford, politician and third Lieutenant Governor of Ontario.
19 September – Charles Joseph Alleyn, lawyer and political figure in Quebec.
11 October – Walter Shanly, civil engineer, author, businessman and politician in Canada.
12 November – John T. Mills, lawyer and Supreme Court Justice for the Republic of Texas.
22 November – Sir [William Ewart, 1st Baronet], manufacturer and politician.
7 December – William Keogh, lawyer and politician.
12 December – Patrick Talbot, British Army officer
;Full date unknown
:*James Anthony Lawson, lawyer.
:*Frederick McCoy, palaeontologist and museum administrator in Australia.
:*Arthur McQuade, farmer and politician in Ontario.