1836 in Ireland

Events from the year 1836 in Ireland.

Events

• 30 January - The Intrinsic sinks off Kilkee with the loss of all fourteen on board.
• February - Foundation of the Ulster Bank in Belfast.
• 4 April - Daniel O'Connell gives a speech on "Justice for Ireland".
• 4 May - The Ancient Order of Hibernians, an Irish Catholic fraternal organization, is founded in New York City.
• 23 May - Irish Constabulary Act provides central organisation for the police in Ireland.
• 4 June - The Sligo Champion newspaper is first published.
• August - Following one of the coldest summers in over fifty years there is widespread failure of the potato crop.
• End of Tithe War.
• Foundation of the Royal Bank of Ireland, a constituent of Allied Irish Banks.
• Foundation of the Ulster Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
• Irish emigration to Montevideo, Uruguay, peaks.

Arts and literature

• Francis Sylvester Mahony's light verse The Reliques of Father Prout published.

Births

• 17 January - William MacCormac, surgeon (died 1901).
• 16 February - Robert Halpin, master mariner (died 1894).
• May - Thomas Lane, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1860 at the Taku Forts, China (died 1889).
• 9 June - Henry Arthur McArdle, painter in the United States (died 1908).
• 10 October - Dalton McCarthy, lawyer and politician in Canada (died 1898).

Deaths

• 31 March - Edward Southwell Ruthven, Repealer politician and member of the United Kingdom Parliament (b. c. 1772)
• 8 August - James Blackwood, 2nd Baron Dufferin and Claneboye, politician (born 1755).
• 21 August - William Cusac Smith, Baronet, judge (born 1766)