This is a list of events from the year 1805 in Ireland Events August – rebel leader Michael Dwyer, held without sentence in Kilmainham Gaol, is transported to Sydney (Australia), where he lands as a free settler in February 1806. 21 October – Battle of Trafalgar: a British Royal Navy fleet led by Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain. Almost 4,000 of the 18,000 men on the British ships were born in Ireland.
Publications Mary Tighe's poem Psyche, or the Legend of Love
Births 2 January – John Hogan, businessman and United States Representative from Missouri (died 1892). 5 April – Samuel Forde, painter from Cork (died 1828). 4 August – William Rowan Hamilton, mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (died 1865). 2 December - William Thompson, naturalist (died 1852). Full date unknown Jon Riley, deserter from United States Army, a founder of the San Patricios (died 1850). Anthony Coningham Sterling, British Army officer and historian (died 1871).
Deaths 27 April – William Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty, politician and statesman (born 1741). 7 May – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, British Whig statesman, Home Secretary in 1782 and Prime Minister 1782–1783 (born 1737). 18 June – Arthur Murphy, editor and writer (born 1727). 27 July – Brian Merriman, Irish language poet and teacher (b. c. 1749). August – John Talbot Dillon, traveller and historical writer (b. c. 1740). 8 December – Rose ffrench, 1st Baroness ffrench.
See also 1805 in Scotland 1805 in Wales
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