1819 in Ireland

Events from the year 1819 in Ireland.

Events

9 April - 7 June: Select Committee of the House of Commons inquires into the state of disease and condition of the poor in Ireland. Typhus epidemic continues.
3 May – Henry Grattan petitions the House of Commons of [the United Kingdom] in favour of Catholic emancipation.
26 June – first detachment of John Devereux's Irish Legion sets sail from Liverpool in the Charlotte Gambier to aid Simón Bolívar in his campaign to liberate New Granada in South America.
13/14 July – uxoricide of Ellen Scanlan and dumping of her body in the River Shannon.
c. October – disturbances by supporters of Ribbonism.

16 April – the Belfast Harp Society is reconstituted as the Irish Harp Society.
Publication of William Parnell's Maurice and Berghetta, or, the priest of Rahery: a tale anonymously in London.

January – William Travers, lawyer, politician, explorer, and naturalist in New Zealand.
31 January – William Pakenham, 4th Earl of Longford, soldier and politician.
1 March – Mother Vincent Whitty, nun.
30 March – Bartholomew Woodlock, Roman Catholic Bishop of Ardagh.
31 March – Edward Selby Smyth, British General, commanded Militia of Canada from 1874 to 1880.
1 May – Jimmy Corcoran, emigrant to Manhattan.
2 July – Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy, barrister and writer.
5 July – Hedges Eyre Chatterton, Conservative Party MP and Vice-Chancellor of Ireland.
8 July – Francis Leopold McClintock, Royal Navy officer, explorer in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
25 July – John J. Conroy, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany .
13 August – George Stokes, mathematician known for the creation of the Navier-Stokes equation.
10 September – Joseph M. Scriven, poet, hymnodist and philanthropist.
25 September – George Salmon, mathematician and theologian.
28 December – Arthur Hunter Palmer, politician in Australia.
Nicholas Joseph Crowley, portrait painter.
Edwin Hayes, English-born marine watercolourist.
Henry Wellesly McCann, farmer and politician in Canada.
Joseph Neale McKenna, banker and politician.