1826 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.
 * 12 July – in the United Kingdom General Election, four counties elect supporters of Catholic Emancipation.
 * The Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act is passed.
 * First life-boat stationed in Ireland by the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, at Arklow.

Arts and literature

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

Births

 * 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).

Deaths

 * 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).