1811 in Ireland

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.
', a romance novela by Irish author Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan) is published.

4 December Ã¢ÂÂ 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 Ã¢ÂÂ James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn, politician and twice Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (died 1885).

10 March Ã¢ÂÂ Yankee Sullivan, bare knuckle fighter and boxer (died 1856).

11 March Ã¢ÂÂ Lady Katherine Sophia Kane nÃÂ©e Baily, botanist (died 1886).

11 November Ã¢ÂÂ John Egan, businessman and politician in Ottawa (died 1857).

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Patrick Murray, theologian (died 1882).

Deaths

Robert Brooke, soldier, Governor of St Helena (born 1744).

See also

1811 in Scotland

1811 in Wales

References