1826 in Ireland

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See also:	1826 in the United Kingdom; Other events of 1826 ; List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1826 in Ireland.

Events

5 January – Irish currency assimilated to that of Great Britain under terms of the Currency Act 1825.^[1]
12 July – in the United Kingdom General Election, four counties elect supporters of Catholic emancipation.^[2]
The Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act is passed.^[3]
First life-boat stationed in Ireland by the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, at Arklow.^[4]

October – Tyrone Power gets his break as a principal Irish character actor at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London.^[5]

March
- James P. Boyd, businessman and politician in Ontario (died 1890).
- John Farrell, soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry at the 1854 Charge of the Light Brigade (died 1865).
13 August – Robert Spencer Dyer Lyons, physician and politician (died 1886).
4 October – Richard Smyth, Presbyterian minister, academic and politician (died 1878).
2 November – Henry John Stephen Smith, mathematician (died 1883).
14 November – Michael Morris, 1st Baron Killanin, jurist, politician, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland (died 1901).
Full date unknown
- Robert Cain, brewer and businessman (died 1907).
- Morgan Crofton, mathematician (died 1915).
- Denis Dempsey, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (died 1896).
- Samuel Hill, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India, later killed in action (died 1863).
- John Lucas, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1861 in New Zealand (died 1892).
- Patrick McHale, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (died 1866).
- Alexander Wright, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea (died 1858).

27 June – Mary Leadbeater, writer (born 1758).
25 September – Judge Fulton, judge, surveyor, politician, and founder of the village of Bass River, Nova Scotia (born 1739).
9 October – Michael Kelly, actor, singer and composer (born 1762).

↑ Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
↑ Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 252.
↑ Lyall, Andrew (2000). Land Law in Ireland (2nd ed.). Dublin: Roundhall Sweet & Maxwell. ISBN 1-85800-199-4.
↑ Dwane, Mairéad (Autumn 2010). "Gael Force". The Lifeboat (593). RNLI: 6.
↑ MacDonagh, Michael (2004). "Power, (William Grattan) Tyrone (1797–1841)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22671. Retrieved 2012-11-12. (subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required)