Events from the year 1811 in Ireland.
Events Kildare Place Society (formally, The Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in Ireland) founded as a non-denominational organisation by a group of Dublin philanthropists. The Missionary: An Indian Tale, a romance novela by Irish author Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan) is published. 4 December – Royal Navy frigate is driven in a gale onto rocks in Lough Swilly with no survivors from the estimated 253 aboard.
Arts and literature James Sheridan Knowles' play Brian Boroihme; or, The Maid of Erin is performed in Belfast.
Births 21 January – James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn, politician and twice Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (died 1885). 10 March – Yankee Sullivan, bare knuckle fighter and boxer (died 1856). 11 March – Lady Katherine Sophia Kane née Baily, botanist (died 1886). 11 November – John Egan, businessman and politician in Ottawa (died 1857). Full date unknown Patrick Murray, theologian (died 1882).
Deaths Robert Brooke, soldier, Governor of St Helena (born 1744).
See also 1811 in Scotland 1811 in Wales
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