Events from the year 1816 in Ireland.
Events The Year Without a Summer – famine and typhoid kill 65,000 people by 1819. January – Belfast Savings Bank opens for business. 30 January – wrecking of the Sea Horse, Boadicea and Lord Melville (military transport ships) off Tramore in a gale with the loss of over 500 persons. 17 March – Richmond Bridge, designed by James Savage, is opened over Dublin's River Liffey. May – the Ha'penny Bridge is opened over Dublin's River Liffey. 18 May – the National Institution for the Education of Deaf and Dumb Children of the Poor in Ireland is founded. June – St. George's Church, Belfast, is opened, the oldest in the city built for the United Church of England and Ireland. 29–30 October – Wildgoose Lodge Murders: eight people are burned to death by a gang in County Louth. Templemore Town Hall is built in County Tipperary.
Births 6 February – John Joseph Lynch, Bishop of Toronto (died 1888). 1 March – Charles Magill, member of the 1st Canadian Parliament and mayor of Hamilton (died 1898). 14 March – Anthony O'Grady Lefroy, government official in Western Australia (died 1897). 8 April – Frederick William Burton, painter (died 1900). 12 April – Charles Gavan Duffy, nationalist and Australian colonial politician (died 1903). 31 July – Trevor Chute, British Army officer (died 1886). 17 September – John Hawkins Hagarty, lawyer, teacher and judge in Canada (died 1900). 30 October – Richard Quain, physician (died 1898). Full date unknown John Drummond, early settler and explorer in Western Australia, first Inspector of Native Police there (died 1906). John O'Mahony, a founding member of the Fenian Brotherhood (died 1877).
Deaths 24 April – James Orr, rhyming weaver poet (born 1770). 3 May – James McHenry, signer of the United States Constitution from Maryland, third United States Secretary of War (born 1753). 7 July – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright and statesman (born 1751). Full date unknown Robert Fagan, painter, diplomat and archaeologist (b. c1761).
See also 1816 in Scotland 1816 in Wales
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