1843 in Ireland

Events from the year 1843 in Ireland.

Events

January – Daniel O'Connell proclaims 1843 as the "Repeal Year".
31 January – Queen's Bridge in Belfast opens.
21 February – repeal debate in Dublin Corporation.
17 March – earthquake in the Irish Sea.
11 June
* Series of monster meetings to agitate for repeal begins at Tuam.
* O'Connell's "Mallow defiance".
15 August – repeal meeting at Tara.
17 August – Loreto Abbey, Dalkey opened as a girls' boarding and day school by the Sisters of Loreto.
18 August – Dalkey Atmospheric Railway opens unofficially.
7 October – O'Connell gives in to government prohibition of Clontarf meeting planned for the next day. However, he is charged with conspiracy a few days later.
November – Devon Commission appointed to research the problems with land leases.
Work starts on the building of Crumlin Road Prison in Belfast.
George Cannock and Andrew White establish the Dublin business that becomes Arnotts department store.

Charles Lever's novel Arthur O'Leary: His wanderings and ponderings in many lands is published serially in Dublin University Magazine and Tom Burke of Ours begins serial publication in Dublin.

11 January – C. Y. O'Connor, engineer in Australia.
3 May – Edward Dowden, critic and poet.
14 August – Thomas Workman, entomologist and arachnologist.
6 November – William James Craig, Shakespearean scholar.
24 November – Richard Croker, politician in America and a leader of New York City's Tammany Hall.
21 December – Thomas Bracken, poet.
25 December
*Albert Cashier, born Jennie Hodgers, soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War, lived as a man.
*George Fisher, Mayor of Wellington.
28 December – George Thomas Stokes, ecclesiastical historian.
Full date unknown – Joanna Hiffernan, artists' model.

19 February – Michael Joseph Quin, author, journalist and editor.
11 May – William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey, politician and statesman.
10 August – Robert Adrain, scientist and mathematician in America.
16 November – Abraham Colles, professor of Anatomy, Surgery and Physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
21 December – Edward Bunting, musician.