1838 in Ireland
Events from the year 1838 in Ireland.
Events
- 4–22 April – the paddle steamer SS Sirius (1837) makes the Transatlantic Crossing to New York from Cork in eighteen days, though not using steam continuously.
- 15 August – following a year of widespread hunger the government institutes relief work and reduces the tithe rent for the poor by the Poor Law and Tithe Acts.
- Foundation of a temperance society in Cork known as the Knights of Father Mathew by Theobald Mathew, a capuchin friar.
Births
- January – Richard W. Dowling, victorious Confederate commander at the Second Battle of Sabine Pass in the American Civil War.
- 24 January – Ricard O'Sullivan Burke, nationalist, Fenian activist, Union soldier in the American Civil War, U.S. Republican Party campaigner and public works engineer.
- 2 February – Nathaniel Burslem, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1860 at the Taku Forts, China.
- 13 February – Michael Sullivan, physician, professor and politician in Canada.
- 26 March – William Edward Hartpole Lecky, historian.
- 3 June – Daniel O'Reilly, U.S. Representative from New York.
- 23 June – James Gildea, soldier and philanthropist, founder of the Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association.
- 5 July – William Robinson, gardener.
- 8 July – John Burke, Union colonel in the American Civil War.
- 28 July – Augustus Nicholas Burke, artist.
- 24 August – James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn, politician and diplomat.
- 11 September – John Ireland, third bishop and first Archbishop of Saint Paul, Minnesota.
- 18 September – Sir Thomas Drew, architect, first designer of St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast.
- 1 November – Anthony Traill, provost of Trinity College Dublin.
- 18 December – Michael Thomas Stenson, politician in Canada.
- ;Full date unknown
- :*John Philip Nolan, soldier, landowner and politician.
- :*Dudley Stagpoole, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1863 near Poutoko in Taranaki, New Zealand.
Deaths
- Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin, author, teacher, draper and politician.