1836 in Ireland

Events from the year 1836 in Ireland.

Events

 * 30 January – the Intrinsic sinks off Kilkee with the loss of all fourteen on board.
 * February – foundation of the Ulster Bank in Belfast.
 * 4 April – Daniel O'Connell gives a speech on "Justice for Ireland".
 * 4 May – the Ancient Order of Hibernians, an Irish Catholic fraternal organization, is founded in New York City.
 * 23 May – Irish Constabulary Act provides central organisation for the police in Ireland; an Act of 4 July provides for formation of a Dublin Police Office.
 * 4 June – The Sligo Champion newspaper is first published.
 * August – following one of the coldest summers in over fifty years there is widespread failure of the potato crop.
 * 19 September – first burial at Mount Jerome Cemetery in Harold's Cross, Dublin, a commercial Protestant burial ground.
 * End of Tithe War.
 * Foundation of the Royal Bank of Ireland, a constituent of Allied Irish Banks.
 * Foundation of the Ulster Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
 * Irish emigration to Montevideo, Uruguay, peaks.

Arts and literature

 * Francis Sylvester Mahony's light verse The Reliques of Father Prout published.

Births

 * 17 January – William MacCormac, surgeon (died 1901).
 * 16 February – Robert Halpin, master mariner (died 1894).
 * May – Thomas Lane, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1860 at the Taku Forts, China (died 1889).
 * 9 June – Henry Arthur McArdle, painter in the United States (died 1908).
 * 27 June – Walter Moxon, prominent physician (died 1886).
 * 10 October – Dalton McCarthy, lawyer and politician in Canada (died 1898).
 * Lot Flannery, sculptor in the United States (died 1922).

Deaths

 * 31 March – Edward Southwell Ruthven, Repealer politician and member of the United Kingdom Parliament (b. c. 1772)
 * 8 August – James Blackwood, 2nd Baron Dufferin and Claneboye, politician (born 1755).
 * 21 August – William Cusac Smith, Baronet, judge (born 1766)