1808 in Ireland

Events from the year 1808 in Ireland.

Events

 * 2 February – Daniel Delany, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, founds the Patrician Brothers.
 * 15 February – laying of the foundation stone for Nelson's Pillar in Dublin
 * 6 June – the Bank of Ireland moves its premises to the former Irish Houses of Parliament on College Green, Dublin.
 * 12 July – Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Wellesley embarks troops at Cork to join the Peninsular War in Portugal.
 * 15 August – seven men, including Edmund Rice, take religious promises under John Power, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, as the Presentation Brothers.
 * 22 August – the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St Mary and St Anne in Cork is dedicated.

Arts and literature

 * Mary Leadbeater's Poems published.
 * Rev. Charles Maturin's novel The Wild Irish Boy published under the pseudonym Dennis Jasper Murphy.
 * Thomas Moore's A Selection of Irish Melodies (first two volumes) published.

Births

 * 15 May – Michael William Balfe, composer (died 1870).
 * Anne Elizabeth Ball, phycologist (died 1872).
 * Joseph Francis Olliffe, physician (died 1869).

Deaths

 * 10 February – Hugh Douglas Hamilton, artist (b. c1734).
 * 30 September – Peter Russell, gambler, government official, politician and judge in Upper Canada (born 1733).