1819 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1819 in Ireland.

Events

• 9 April–7 June - Select Committee of the House of Commons inquires into the state of disease and condition of the poor in Ireland.^[1] Typhus epidemic continues.
• 3 May - Henry Grattan petitions the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in favour of Catholic Emancipation.^[1]
• 26 June - First detachment of John Devereux's Irish Legion sets sail from Liverpool in the Charlotte Gambier to aid Simón Bolívar in his campaign to liberate New Granada in South America.^[1]
• 13/14 July - Uxoricide of Ellen Scanlan (née Hanley, the "Colleen Bawn") and dumping of her body in the River Shannon.^[1]
• c. October - Disturbances by supporters of Ribbonism.^[1]

Arts and literature

• 16 April - The Belfast Harp Society is reconstituted as the Irish Harp Society.^[1]
• Publication of William Parnell's Maurice and Berghetta, or, the priest of Rahery: a tale anonymously in London.^[1]

Births

• January - William Travers, lawyer, politician, explorer, and naturalist in New Zealand (died 1903).
• 31 January - William Pakenham, 4th Earl of Longford, soldier and politician (died 1887).
• 1 March - Mother Vincent Whitty, nun (died 1892).
• 30 March - Bartholomew Woodlock, Roman Catholic Bishop of Ardagh (died 1902).
• 31 March - Edward Selby Smyth, British General, commanded Militia of Canada from 1874 to 1880 (died 1896).
• 2 July - Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy, barrister and writer (died 1880).
• 5 July - Hedges Eyre Chatterton, Conservative Party MP and Vice-Chancellor of Ireland (died 1910).
• 8 July - Francis Leopold McClintock, Royal Navy officer, explorer in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (died 1907).
• 25 July - John J. Conroy, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany (New York) (died 1895).
• 10 September - Joseph M. Scriven, poet, hymnodist and philanthropist (died 1886).
• 25 September - George Salmon, mathematician and theologian (died 1904).
• 28 December - Arthur Hunter Palmer, politician in Australia (died 1898).
• Jimmy Corcoran, emigrant to Manhattan (died 1900).
• Nicholas Joseph Crowley, portrait painter (died 1857).
• Edwin Hayes, English-born marine watercolourist (died 1904).
• Henry Wellesly McCann, farmer and politician in Canada.
• Joseph Neale McKenna, banker and politician (died 1906).

Deaths

• 6 September - William Beresford, 1st Baron Decies, Anglo-Irish clergyman (born 1743).^[2]
• 26 September - James Towers English, mercenary (born 1782).
• 27 November - Gustavus Conyngham, privateer (born c.1744/45).
• Euseby Cleaver, Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland) (born 1746).
• Thomas Meredith, clergyman and mathematician (born 1777).
• James O'Hara, military officer and businessman in the United States (born c.1752).

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