1838 in Ireland

Events

• Foundation of a temperance society in Cork known as the Knights of Father Mathew by Theobald Mathew, a capuchin friar.
• Tithe Act.^[1]
• Poor Law Act.^[1]
• 15 August Following a year of widespread hunger the government institutes relief work and reduces the tithe rent for the poor.

Births

• January - Richard W. Dowling, victorious commander at the Second Battle of Sabine Pass in the American Civil War (d.1867).
• 2 February - Nathaniel Burslem, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1860 at the Taku Forts, China (d.1865).
• 13 February - Michael Sullivan, physician, professor and politician in Canada (d.1915).
• 26 March - William Edward Hartpole Lecky, historian (d.1903).
• 3 June - Daniel O'Reilly, U.S. Representative from New York (d.1911).
• 8 July - Colonel John Burke, soldier in America (d.1914).
• 28 July - Augustus Nicholas Burke, artist (d.1891).^[2]
• 24 August - James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn, politician and diplomat (d.1913)^[3].
• 11 September - John Ireland, third Bishop and first Archbishop of Saint Paul, Minnesota (d.1918).
• 18 September - Sir Thomas Drew, architect, first designer of St Anne's Cathedral (d.1910).^[4]
• 1 November - Anthony Traill, provost of Trinity College Dublin (d.1914).
• 18 December - Michael Thomas Stenson, politician in Canada (d.1912).

Full date unknown

• James Gildea, soldier and philanthropist, founded the Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association (d.1920).
• John Philip Nolan, soldier, landowner and politician (d.1912).
• Dudley Stagpoole, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1863 near Poutoko in Taranaki, New Zealand (d.1911).

Deaths

• 25 August - William Annesley, 3rd Earl Annesley, politician (b.1772)^[5].
• Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin, author, teacher, draper and politician (b.1780).

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