1823 in Ireland

Events from the year 1823 in Ireland.

Events

Catholic Association formed by Daniel O'Connell, to further Catholic emancipation.
October – HMS Essex, a former American frigate of 1799, is hulked at Cork to serve as a prison ship; from 1824 to 1834 she serves in this capacity at Kingstown.

5 August – the Royal Hibernian Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture is established by letters patent in Dublin.

1 January – Edward Butler, lawyer and politician in Australia.
12 January – James Donnelly, Bishop of the Diocese of Clogher.
23 January – Abraham Fitzgibbon, railway civil engineer in the British empire
26 March – Ann Jellicoe, educationalist.
7 July – John Kells Ingram, poet, scholar, economist and historian of economic thought.
7 September – Kevin Izod O'Doherty, transported to Australia in 1849, physician and politician.
10 September – James O'Connor, first Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Omaha.
16 September – James O'Reilly, lawyer and politician in Canada.
;Full date unknown
:*Thomas Devin Reilly, revolutionary, Young Irelander and journalist.
:*John Ryan, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India, killed in action.