1813 in Ireland

Events

• 26 July – Battle of Garvagh, County Londonderry: Four hundred Catholic Ribbonmen attempt to destroy a tavern in Garvagh where the Orange Lodge meet and are repelled by Protestants with muskets. This was commemorated in the song "The Battle of Garvagh".
• 10 September – the largest meteorite ever to fall on the British Isles lands at Adare, County Limerick. Now held in the Limerick Museum

Arts and literature

• "Poetical Attempts by Hugh Porter, a County of Down weaver" published in Belfast.
• painted by Joseph Peacock.

Births

• 6 January – Charles Lanyon, architect.
• 3 February – Thomas Mellon, entrepreneur, lawyer, and judge founder of Mellon Bank.
• 2 June – Daniel Pollen, politician, ninth Premier of New Zealand.
• 7 June – Sir Thomas Burke, 3rd Baronet, landowner and politician.
• 6 September – Isaac Butt, Irish Conservative Party MP and founder of the Home Rule League.
• 10 November – Patrick Duggan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clonfert.
• 14 November – Benjamin Lett, bomber and arsonist in America and Canada.
• 19 December – Thomas Andrews, chemist and physicist.
• Undated
• *Margaret Haughery, baker and philanthropist in New Orleans.
• *John Skipton Mulvany, architect.

Deaths

• 28 May – Edmund Garvey, painter.
• 18 August – Friedrich Bridgetower, composer and cellist, brother of George Bridgetower, in Newry.
• Autumn – Henrietta Battier, poet, satirist and actress.