1822 in Ireland

Events from the year 1822 in Ireland.

Events

 * 22 April – The Albion, a Black Ball Line trans-Atlantic packet, is driven ashore at Old Head of Kinsale with the loss of 46 of the 54 aboard.
 * 7 June – The Constitution; or, Cork Morning Post begins publication.
 * 19 July – Percy Jocelyn, Anglican Bishop of Clogher, is caught in a compromising position with a young Grenadier Guardsman at a public house in London. He breaks bail and flees England. In October, an Irish ecclesiastical court deprives him of office.
 * 21 September – HMS Confiance, a Royal Navy Cruizer-class brig-sloop of 1813, is wrecked between Mizen Head and Three Castles Head near Crookhaven with the loss of all 100 aboard.
 * Public gas lighting in Belfast.
 * Mary Leadbeater's Cottage Biography, being a Collection of Lives of the Irish Peasantry is published.

Births

 * 16 February – James Thomson, engineer and physicist (died 1892).
 * 21 February – Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, statesman, three times Chief Secretary for Ireland, Viceroy of India (assassinated 1872 in the Andaman Islands).
 * 31 August – Timothy Anglin, politician in Canada and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (died 1896).
 * September – Denis Dynon, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Chota Behar, India (died 1863).
 * 2 October – James Pearson, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Jhansi, India (died 1900).
 * 11 October – Alexander John Arbuthnot, British official in India and writer (died 1907).
 * November – John Divane, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India (died 1888).
 * 4 December – Frances Power Cobbe, social reformer, feminist theorist, pioneer animal rights activist and writer (died 1904).
 * 11 December – John Nicholson, military hero in India (died 1857).
 * Full date unknown
 * James Byrne, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Jhansi, India (died 1872).
 * Maxwell Henry Close, geologist (died 1903).
 * Joseph Philip Ronayne, civil engineer (died 1876).

Deaths

 * 15 February – Pierce Butler, soldier, planter, statesman, one of United States' Founding Fathers, represented South Carolina in the Continental Congress and the U.S. Senate (born 1744).
 * 25 March – Robert Blake, dentist, first State Dentist of Dublin (born 1772).
 * 12 August – Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, politician, represented the United Kingdom at the Congress of Vienna (born 1769).
 * John Bowden, ecclesiastical architect.