1865 in Ireland

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Events

23 July — The SS Great Eastern sets out from Valentia Island on the first attempt to lay the transatlantic telegraph cable.^[1]
Work begins on the building of the Albert Memorial Clock, Belfast, as a memorial to Queen Victoria's late Prince Consort, Prince Albert.

23 December — Gustavus Vaughan Brooke concludes a farewell season in Belfast, playing the title role in Richard III.
Augustus Burke paints Connemara Girl.
Samuel Ferguson publishes his collected poems Lays of the Western Gael.

6 February — Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin, astronomer (died 1939).
16 March — Patsy Donovan, Major League Baseball player and manager (died 1953).
17 March — Patrick Joseph Sullivan, mayor of Casper, Wyoming and Republican member of the United States Senate from Wyoming (died 1935).
20 April — James Macmahon, civil servant and businessman, Under-Secretary for Ireland from 1918 to 1922 (died 1954).
4 May — Charles A. Callis, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died 1947).
7 May — John MacBride, nationalist, rebel and Easter Rising leader, executed (died 1916).
8 May — Charles FitzClarence, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1899 near Mafeking, South Africa, killed in action (died 1914).
13 June — William Butler Yeats, poet and dramatist (died 1939).
18 June — Henry Allan, painter (died 1912).
24 June — Harry Plunket Greene, baritone (died 1936).
15 July — Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, newspaper and publishing magnate (died 1922)
16 July — 'George A. Birmingham' (Rev. James Owen Hannay), novelist (died 1950)
16 October — Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan, British Army commander in World War I, later Chief of the Imperial General Staff and Field Marshal (died 1946).
12 November — Herbert Trench, poet (died 1923).

Thomas Kent, nationalist and rebel, executed following a gunfight with the RIC (died 1916).
Alice Milligan, nationalist and poet (died 1953).
Dermod O'Brien, painter (died 1945).
Grace Rhys, novelist (died 1929).
Robert Henry Woods, Irish Unionist MP (died 1938).

1 April — John Cuffe, 3rd Earl of Desart, Conservative politician. (born 1818).
23 May — Benjamin Holmes, businessman and politician in Quebec (born 1794).
14 July — Nathaniel Burslem, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1860 at the Taku Forts, China (born 1838).
25 July — Dr James Barry, military surgeon, revealed on death to be a woman, probably Margaret Ann Bulkley (born 1789-1799).
31 August — John Farrell, soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry at the 1854 Charge of the Light Brigade (born 1826).
2 September — William Rowan Hamilton, mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (born 1805).

↑ Glover, Bill. "Great Eastern". History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications. Retrieved 2013-03-21.