1830 in Ireland
Events from the year 1830 in Ireland.
Events
- February – first Roman Catholics take their seats in the House of Commons at Westminster, among them Daniel O'Connell and Richard More O'Ferrall.
- 12 July – Orange Institution parades lead to confrontations between Orangemen and Ribbonmen in Maghera and Castledawson in County Londonderry. Several Catholic homes are burned by Protestants following these clashes.
- July – potato crop failure the previous year leads to widespread famine. Food riots in Limerick and Leitrim.
- August – first Dublin Horse Show.
- November – Ribbonmen attack an Orange band, puncturing some of their drums. The Orangemen retaliate by burning the Catholic village of Maghery, County Armagh, to the ground.
- ;Undated
- :* The Remonstrant Synod of Ulster is formed by non-subscribing Presbyterians.
- :* T. & A. Mulholland open the 8000-spindle York Street flax mill in Belfast.
- :* Austins established in the Diamond, Derry. At closure in 2016 it will be the world's oldest independent department store.
- :* Sir Jonah Barrington is removed from the judiciary following an Address to the King by both Houses of Parliament, a unique event.
- :* William Carleton publishes Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry and Confessions of a Reformed Ribbonman, a fictionalised account of the Wildgoose Lodge Murders of 1816.
- :* The private Markree Observatory is set up.
Births
- 1 January – William James Lendrim, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at the Siege of Sevastopol, Crimea.
- 10 April – John Sullivan, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea.
- 12 May – Maurice O'Rorke, politician and Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives.
- 25 May – Hugh Nelson, politician in Canada and Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia.
- 23 July – John O' Leary, Fenian poet.
- 12 August – John O'Connor, painter.
- 29 August – Charles Bowen, politician in New Zealand.
- 16 September – Patrick Francis Moran, third Archbishop of Sydney.
- 20 September – Arthur Thomas Moore, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at the Battle of Khushab, Persia.
- 20 September – Hans Garrett Moore, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1877 at Komgha, South Africa.
- October – John Connors, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol in the Crimea.
- 22 November – Justin McCarthy, politician, historian and novelist.
- 24 December – Harry Hammon Lyster, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Calpee, India.
- ;Full date unknown
- :*Brian Dillon, Fenian leader.
- :*Robert Dwyer Joyce, music collector and writer.
- :*Charles McCorrie, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea.
- :*William R. Roberts, diplomat, Fenian Society member and United States Representative from New York.
- :*Eyre Massey Shaw, superintendent of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade.
Deaths
- 26 June – George IV of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- 11 October – Richard John Uniacke, lawyer, politician, member of Nova Scotia Legislative Assembly and Attorney General of Nova Scotia.