1837 in Ireland

Events

• Shaw's Bank merges with the Royal Bank of Ireland.
• 8 April - Low-water mark datum measured at Poolbeg Lighthouse by the Ordnance Survey.
• August – following a very cold summer there is widespread failure of the potato crop, as in 1836, leading to famine later in the year.
• 18 August – the Roman Catholic Tuam Cathedral is dedicated.
• 4 September –, badly damaged during an Arctic expedition, is beached at Lough Swilly to save her.

Arts and literature

• February – Charles Lever begins publishing his fictional The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer in Dublin University Magazine.
• Thomas Crofton Croker publishes Popular Songs of Ireland.
• Tyrone Power stages and acts in the Irish-themed plays St. Patrick's Eve and Rory O'More.

Births

• 16 March – Frederick Wolseley, inventor of the sheep shearing machine.
• 7 May – John Michael Clancy, Democrat United States Representative from New York.
• 24 May – John McDonald, soldier and Congressman in America.
• 28 May – George Ashlin, architect.
• 1 August – Mary Harris Jones, labor leader in America.
• 7 August
• *James Brenan, painter.
• *Allan James Foley, operatic bass singer.
• 4 September – Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne, lawyer and Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
• 1 October – Edward James Saunderson, leader of the Irish Unionist Party in the British House of Commons.
• ;Full date unknown
• :*Patrick Graham, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India.

Deaths

• 20 January – Arthur Gore, 3rd Earl of Arran, politician.
• 23 January – John Field, composer and pianist.
• 1 February – Edward Donovan, writer, traveller and amateur zoologist.
• 27 February – Lord Kingsborough, antiquarian.
• 20 June – William IV of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
• 13 July – William Hare, 1st Earl of Listowel, peer and MP.
• 24 November – Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty, diplomat, Irish, and later British, MP.
• ;Full date unknown
• :*Gilbert Austin, educator, clergyman and author.