1853 in Ireland
Events from the year 1853 in Ireland.
Events
- 15 February – City of [Dublin Steam Packet Company], inward bound from Liverpool, sinks in a snowstorm at night below Baily Lighthouse on Howth Head with the loss of more than 80 lives.
- 12 May-31 October – Great [Industrial Exhibition (1853)|Great Industrial Exhibition] held in Dublin, promoted by William Dargan. Queen Victoria, accompanied by the Prince Consort and the Prince of Wales, pays an official visit on 29 August. John Hutton & Son of Dublin exhibit the Irish State Coach.
Births
- 30 January – Leland Hone, cricketer.
- 6 February – Robert John McConnell, businessman, baronet and Lord Mayor of Belfast.
- 7 February – Egerton Bushe Coghill, painter.
- 30 March – Frank O'Meara, artist.
- March – John Doogan, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1881 at Laing's Nek, South Africa.
- 10 April – Owen Hall, theatre writer and critic.
- 3 July – Aloysius O'Kelly, painter.
- July – Thomas Brennan, a founder and joint first secretary of the Irish National Land League.
Deaths
- 20 March – Robert James Graves, physician.
- 14 April – Robert Baldwin Sullivan, lawyer, judge, and politician in Canada, second Mayor of Toronto.
- 21 September – Timothy Burns, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin from 1851 to 1853.
- 28 October – Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry, politician.