1841 in Ireland

Events from the year '''1841 in Ireland'''

Events

6 June – 1841 [census of Ireland]: the first thorough census is completed and the population of Ireland is calculated to be just under 8.2 million.
1 November – Daniel O'Connell is elected as the first Roman Catholic Lord Mayor of Dublin in centuries.
3 November – foundation stone for Saint Malachy's Church, Belfast is laid.
Ennis Friary refounded by Franciscans.
The Cork Examiner newspaper is founded by John Francis Maguire in support of the Catholic emancipation and tenant rights work of Daniel O'Connell.
Ulster Canal completed.
Anthony Trollope moves to Ireland as an official of the General Post Office, initially settling in Banagher.

Charles Lever's novel Charles O'Malley, the Irish Dragoon is published in Dublin.

12 February – Windham Wyndham-Quin, 4th [Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl], peer.
30 April – Charles Cooper Penrose-Fitzgerald, admiral in the Royal Navy.
31 August – Patrick Egan, treasurer of the Irish Land League, fled to the United States, United States Minister to Chile.
10 September – Max Arthur Macauliffe, British administrator, scholar and author.
31 October – Abraham Dowdney, United States Representative from New York and officer in the Union army in the American Civil War.
5 December – Marcus Daly, businessman in America.
22 December – Thomas McCarthy Fennell, Fenian political prisoner transported to Western Australia.
;Full date unknown
:*Patrick Buckley, soldier, lawyer, statesman, and judge in New Zealand.
:*Rosa Mulholland, novelist, short-story writer and poet.
:*Charles Anderson Read, journalist, novelist and anthologist.

7 January – James Arthur O'Connor, painter.
17 March – Tyrone Power, actor, comedian, author and theatrical manager.
18 April – Somerset Lowry-Corry, 2nd Earl Belmore, politician and statesman.
21 July – Price Blackwood, 4th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye, Royal Navy captain.
24 August – Thomas Hopkirk, botanist.
11 November – Catherine McAuley, nun.