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.
 * The Missionary: An Indian Tale, a romance novela by Irish author Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan) is published.
 * 4 December – Royal Navy frigate HMS Saldanha (1809) 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 – James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn, politician and twice Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (died 1885).
 * 10 March – Yankee Sullivan, bare knuckle fighter and boxer (died 1856).
 * 11 March – Lady Katherine Sophia Kane née Baily, botanist (died 1886).
 * 11 November – John Egan, businessman and politician in Ottawa (died 1857).
 * Full date unknown
 * Patrick Murray, theologian (died 1882).

Deaths

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