1832 in Ireland

Events

• 23 May – following disorder at Castlepollard Fair in County Westmeath, at least seven men and two women are shot dead by the constabulary.
• 7 August – the Representation of the People Act, 1832, commonly called the Irish [Reform Act 1832], introduces wide-ranging changes to the laws for elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom, particularly in the Boroughs.

Arts and literature

• January – Theatre Royal, Wexford opened.

Births

• 6 May – Margaret Anna Cusack, nun, writer and founder of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace.
• 10 May – William Russell Grace, businessman and first Roman Catholic mayor of New York.
• September – John Byrne, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1854 at the Battle of Inkerman, Crimea.
• 30 September – Charlotte Riddell, née Cowan, novelist and editor.
• 11 November – Martin Murphy, civil engineer.
• 14 November – Stopford Brooke, Anglican clergyman and writer.

Full date unknown

• Patrick Carlin, Victoria Cross soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 in India.
• Thomas McCarthy, businessman and politician in Quebec.
• Standish Hayes O'Grady, antiquarian.
• Joseph Ward, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Gwalior, India.

Deaths

• 20 January – Alexander Nimmo, Scottish civil engineer and geologist active in early 19th-century Ireland
• 8 April – Andrew Blayney, 11th Baron Blayney, soldier, politician and peer.
• 18 September – Henry Boyd, literary translator.
• 28 December – Henry Conyngham, 1st Marquess Conyngham, politician.