Events from the year 1837 in Ireland.
Events
Arts and literature
Births
- 16 March â Frederick Wolseley, inventor of the sheep shearing machine (died 1899 in the United Kingdom).
- 7 May â John Michael Clancy, Democrat United States Representative from New York (died 1903 in the United States).
- 24 May â John McDonald, soldier and Congressman in America (died 1917 in the United States).
- 28 May â George Ashlin, architect (died 1921).
- 1 August (bapt.) â Mary Harris Jones ("Mother Jones"), labor leader in America (died 1930 in the United States).
- 7 August
- James Brenan, painter (died 1907).
- Allan James Foley ("Signor Foli"), operatic bass singer (died 1899 in the United Kingdom).
- 4 September â Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne, lawyer and Lord Chancellor of Ireland (died 1913).
- 1 October â Edward James Saunderson, leader of the Irish Unionist Party in the British House of Commons (died 1906).
- ;Full date unknown
- :*Patrick Graham, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (died 1875).
Deaths
- 20 January â Arthur Gore, 3rd Earl of Arran, politician (born 1761).
- 23 January â John Field, composer and pianist (born 1782).
- 1 February â Edward Donovan, writer, traveller and amateur zoologist (born 1768).
- 27 February â Lord Kingsborough, antiquarian (born 1795).
- 20 June â William IV of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (born 1765).
- 13 July â William Hare, 1st Earl of Listowel, peer and MP (born 1751).
- 24 November â Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty, diplomat, Irish, and later British, MP (born 1767).
- ;Full date unknown
- :*Gilbert Austin, educator, clergyman and author (Rborn 1753).
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