1832 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1832 in Ireland.

Events

• 23 May - Following disorder at Castlepollard Fair in County Westmeath, at least seven men and two women are shot dead by the constabulary.^[1]
• 7 August - An Act to Amend the Representation of the People of Ireland, commonly called the Irish Reform Act 1832, introduces wide-ranging changes to the laws for elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom, particularly in the Boroughs.^[2]

Arts and literature

• January - Theatre Royal, Wexford opened.

Births

• 6 May - Margaret Anna Cusack, nun, writer and founder of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace (died 1899 in England).
• 10 May - William Russell Grace, businessman and first Roman Catholic mayor of New York (died 1904 in the United States).
• September - John Byrne, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1854 at the Battle of Inkerman, Crimea (died 1879 in Wales).
• 11 November - Martin Murphy, civil engineer (died 1926 in Canada)
• 14 November - Stopford Brooke, Anglican clergyman and writer (died 1916 in England).

Full date unknown

• Patrick Carlin, Victoria Cross soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 in India (died 1895).
• Thomas McCarthy, businessman and politician in Quebec (died 1870 in Canada).
• Standish Hayes O'Grady, antiquarian (died 1915 in England).
• Joseph Ward, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Gwalior, India (died 1872).

Deaths

• 8 April - Andrew Blayney, 11th Baron Blayney, soldier, politician and peer (born 1770).
• 18 September - Henry Boyd, literary translator.
• 28 December - Henry Conyngham, 1st Marquess Conyngham, politician (born 1766).

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