1808 in Ireland

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Events

2 February – Daniel Delany, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, founds the Patrician Brothers.
15 February – laying of the foundation stone for Nelson's Pillar in Dublin
6 June – the Bank of Ireland moves its premises to the former Irish Houses of Parliament on College Green, Dublin.
12 July – Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Wellesley embarks troops at Cork to join the Peninsular War in Portugal.^[1]
15 August – seven men, including Edmund Rice, take religious promises under John Power, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, as the Presentation Brothers.^[2]
22 August – the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St Mary and St Anne in Cork is dedicated.^[3]

Mary Leadbeater's Poems published.
Rev. Charles Maturin's novel The Wild Irish Boy published under the pseudonym Dennis Jasper Murphy.
Thomas Moore's A Selection of Irish Melodies (first two volumes) published.

10 February – Hugh Douglas Hamilton, artist (b. c1734).
30 September – Peter Russell, gambler, government official, politician and judge in Upper Canada (born 1733).

↑ Gash, Norman (2004). "Wellesley, Arthur, first duke of Wellington (1769–1852)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29001. Retrieved 2012-10-12. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
↑ Normoyle, M. C. (1976). A Tree is Planted: the Life and Times of Edmund Rice. Congregation of Christian Brothers. p. 71.
↑ "August 1808". Cork: Cathedral Parish. Retrieved 2012-07-17.

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