1822 in Ireland

Events from the year 1822 in Ireland.

Events

22 April – The Albion, a Black Ball Line trans-Atlantic packet, is driven ashore at Old Head of Kinsale with the loss of 46 of the 54 aboard.
7 June – The Constitution; or, Cork Morning Post begins publication.
19 July – Percy Jocelyn, Anglican Bishop of Clogher, is caught in a compromising position with a young Grenadier Guardsman at a public house in London. He breaks bail and flees England. In October, an Irish ecclesiastical court deprives him of office.
21 September – HMS Confiance, a Royal Navy of 1813, is wrecked between Mizen Head and Three Castles Head near Crookhaven with the loss of all 100 aboard.
Public gas lighting in Belfast.
Mary Leadbeater's Cottage Biography, being a Collection of Lives of the Irish Peasantry is published.

16 February – James Thomson, engineer and physicist.
21 February – Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, statesman, three times Chief Secretary for Ireland, Viceroy of India.
31 August – Timothy Anglin, politician in Canada and Speaker of the [House of Commons of Canada].
September – Denis Dynon, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Chota Behar, India.
2 October – James Pearson, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Jhansi, India.
11 October – Alexander John Arbuthnot, British official in India and writer.
November – John Divane, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India.
4 December – Frances Power Cobbe, social reformer, feminist theorist, pioneer animal rights activist and writer.
11 December – John Nicholson, military hero in India.
;Full date unknown
:*James Byrne, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Jhansi, India.
:*Maxwell Henry Close, geologist.
:*Joseph Philip Ronayne, civil engineer.

15 February – Pierce Butler, soldier, planter, statesman, one of United States' Founding Fathers, represented South Carolina in the Continental Congress and the U.S. Senate.
25 March – Robert Blake, dentist, first State Dentist of Dublin.
12 August – Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, politician, represented the United [Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom] at the Congress of Vienna.
John Bowden, ecclesiastical architect.