1813 in Ireland
Events from the year 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.