Events from the year 1824 in Ireland.
Events
Births
- 23 April â William Nash, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Lucknow, India (died 1875).
- 28 May â Thomas Croke, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel and Emly, founder patron of the Gaelic Athletic Association (died 1902).
- 26 June â William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, mathematical physicist, engineer, and leader in the physical sciences (died 1907).
- August â Thomas Laughnan, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (died 1864).
- 1 December â Thomas Henry Fitzgerald, farmer and politician in Queensland, Australia (died 1888).
- 12 December â William Joseph Corbet, nationalist politician and MP (died 1909).
- ;Full date unknown
- :*John Coghlan, public works engineer in Argentina (died 1890).
- :*Patrick Green, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India (died 1889).
- :*John O'Hart, genealogist (died 1902).
- :*Charles Irwin, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (died 1873).
- :*John Lyons, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at the siege of Sevastopol in the Crimean War (died 1867).
- :*Edward Whelan, politician, one of the Fathers of the Canadian Confederation (died 1867).
Deaths
- 21 January â Charles MacCarthy, soldier in the French, Dutch and British armies, governor of various British territories in West Africa (born 1764).
- 17 April â William Ashford, landscape painter (born 1746 in England).
- 16 June â Walter Thom, journalist (born 1770 in Scotland).
- 24 August â Valentine Quin, 1st Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer (born 1752).
- 30 October â Charles Maturin, clergyman, novelist and playwright (born 1782).
- 9 November â Richard Annesley, 2nd Earl Annesley, politician (born 1745).
- 19 November â Bishop James Murphy, Bishop of Clogher 1801âÂÂ1824 (born 1744).
- 5 December â Thomas McCord, businessman and politician in Lower Canada (born 1750).
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