1833 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1833 in Ireland.
Events
- August - Mount Melleray Abbey in the Knockmealdown Mountains is founded, the first Cistercian foundation in Ireland in modern times.
- 28 August - The school which will evolve into Castleknock College is opened in Dublin by the Vincentian community.
Arts and literature
- Early - Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, aged 14, makes his stage debut, at the Dublin Theatre, playing William Tell.
Births
- 21 January - Joseph Prosser, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sevastopol, Crimea (died 1869).
- 8 February - Launt Thompson, sculptor (died 1894).
- 25 March - Sir Theobald Hubert Burke, 13th Baronet (died 1909).[1]
- 4 May - Michael N. Nolan, U.S. Representative from New York, mayor of Albany (died 1905).
- 29 May - William Hare, 3rd Earl of Listowel, peer and Liberal politician (died 1924).
- 4 June - Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, soldier (died 1913).
- 17 July - Hugh Talbot Burgoyne, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 in the Sea of Azov, Crimea (died 1870).
- 3 November - William Knox Leet, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 at Inhlobana, Zululand, South Africa (died 1898).
- 7 November - William Temple, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1863 at Rangiriri, New Zealand (died 1919).
- Henry James O'Farrell, would-be assassin (executed 1868 in Australia).
Deaths
- 28 March - William Thompson, political and philosophical writer and social reformer (born 1775).
- 3 May - Nicholas Tuite MacCarthy, Jesuit preacher (born 1769).