1826 in Ireland
Events from the year 1826 in Ireland.
Events
- 5 January – Irish currency assimilated to that of Great Britain under terms of the Currency Act 1825.
- 12 July – in the United Kingdom General Election, four counties elect supporters of Catholic emancipation.
- The Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act is passed.
- First life-boat stationed in Ireland by the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, at Arklow.
Arts and literature
- October – Tyrone Power gets his break as a principal Irish character actor at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London.
Births
- March
- *James P. Boyd, businessman and politician in Ontario.
- *John Farrell, soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry at the 1854 Charge of the Light Brigade.
- 13 August – Robert Spencer Dyer Lyons, physician and politician.
- 4 October – Richard Smyth, Presbyterian minister, academic and politician.
- 2 November – Henry John Stephen Smith, mathematician.
- 14 November – Michael Morris, 1st Baron Killanin, jurist, politician, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland.
- ;Full date unknown
- :*Robert Cain, brewer and businessman.
- :*Morgan Crofton, mathematician.
- :*Denis Dempsey, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross.
- :*Samuel Hill, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India, later killed in action.
- :*John Lucas, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1861 in New Zealand.
- :*Patrick McHale, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India.
- :*Alexander Wright, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea.
Deaths
- 27 June – Mary Leadbeater, writer.
- 25 September – Judge Fulton, judge, surveyor, politician, and founder of the village of Bass River, Nova Scotia.
- 9 October – Michael Kelly, actor, singer and composer.