1806 in Ireland

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Events

• 10 April - Sir Arthur Wellesley marries Kitty Pakenham, daughter of the Earl of Longford, in the temporary St. George's Church built on Whitworth Road in Dublin.^[1][2]
• American engraver Henry Pelham, agent for Lord Lansdowne's Irish estates, is drowned from a boat while superintending the erection of a martello tower in the Kenmare River.

Arts and literature

• Sydney Owenson publishes her epistolatory novel The Wild Irish Girl: a National Tale.
• Samuel Thomson (1766-1816) publishes his third volume of verse Simple Poems on a Few Subjects.
• The English architect George Papworth moves to Dublin.

Births

• 21 January - William Quarter, first Roman Catholic bishop of Chicago (died 1848).
• 25 January - Daniel Maclise, painter (died 1870).
• 31 May - Patrick Leahy, Archbishop of Cashel (died 1875).
• 25 July - John O'Donovan, scholar and first historic topographer (died 1861).
• 1 August - Edward Crofton, 2nd Baron Crofton, Conservative politician (died 1869).
• 17 August - Peter Richard Kenrick, first Catholic archbishop west of the Mississippi River (died 1896).
• 20 August - Archibald Acheson, 3rd Earl of Gosford, Member of Parliament for Armagh (died 1864).
• 31 August - Charles Lever, novelist (died 1872).
• September - Samuel Davidson, biblical scholar (died 1898).
• 15 October - William Clements, 3rd Earl of Leitrim, nobleman and landowner (died 1878).
• 3 November - Robert Molesworth, judge in Australia (died 1890).
• 4 December - John T. Graves, mathematician (died 1870).

Full date unknown

• Simon Byrne, prize-fighter (died 1833).

Deaths

• 22 February - James Barry, painter (born 1741).
• 31 May - George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, statesman, colonial administrator and diplomat (born 1737).
• 9 September - William Paterson, jurist in the United States (born 1745).
• 18 September - Patrick Cotter O'Brien, known as the Bristol Giant and the Irish Giant (born 1760).

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