1852 in Ireland

Events from the year 1852 in Ireland.

Events

5 January – the troopship HMS Birkenhead boards British Army recruits at Queenstown. It has insufficient lifeboats.
26 February – the Birkenhead founders off the coast of South Africa. The soldiers stand to attention while women and children are placed in the lifeboats.
10 June
*The 18-arch Craigmore Viaduct near Newry on the Dublin-Belfast railway line is opened.
*The Irish Industrial Exhibition is opened in Cork.
1 October – Patent Law Amendment Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, merging the English, Scottish and Irish patent systems.
Eglington Pauper Lunatic Asylum opened in Cork.
End of the Great Famine. In the period it has lasted since 1845, one million people have emigrated from Ireland. The Irish now make up a quarter of the population of Liverpool, Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore; and a half of Toronto.
Tenant farmer Michael O'Regan emigrates from County Tipperary to London. He will become paternal great-grandfather to Ronald Reagan, President of the United States.
Samuel Kelly establishes his coal merchant's business as Samuel Kelly Coal Merchant on the Coal Quay, Belfast.

Edmund Falconer produces his first collection of poems Man’s Mission: A Pilgrimage to Glory’s Goal whilst working as a jobbing actor.

25 January – Nevill Coghill, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry at the Battle of Isandhlwana, South Africa.
28 January – Louis Brennan, inventor.
2 February – Lawrence E. McGann, Democrat United States [House of Representatives|U.S. Representative] from Illinois.
24 February – George Moore, novelist, poet, art critic and dramatist.
29 February – Frank Gavan Duffy, fourth Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia.
15 March – Augusta, Lady Gregory, dramatist and folklorist.
17 March – Patrick Augustine Sheehan, priest, author and political activist.
27 March – Jim Connell, political activist, writer of The Red Flag.
9 April – Laurence Ginnell, nationalist, lawyer and politician, member of 1st Dáil.
28 July – Barton McGuckin, tenor singer.
30 September – Charles Villiers Stanford, composer.
2 October – William O'Brien, nationalist, journalist, agrarian agitator, social revolutionary, politician, party leader, newspaper publisher and author.

25 February – Thomas Moore, poet, singer, songwriter and entertainer.
25 April – Arthur O'Connor, United Irishman and later general in Napoleon's army.
8 May – Charles Rowan, joint first Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, head of the London Metropolitan Police.
14 September – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, soldier and statesman.
;Full date unknown
:*Edward Bransfield, master in the Royal Navy.
:*William Thompson, naturalist.
:*Elliot Warburton, travel writer and novelist.