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.