1837 in Ireland

Events from the year 1837 in Ireland.

Events

 * Shaw's Bank merges with the Royal Bank of Ireland (later to become one of the Allied Irish Banks).
 * 8 April - Low-water mark datum measured at Poolbeg Lighthouse by the Ordnance Survey.
 * August – following a very cold summer there is widespread failure of the potato crop, as in 1836, leading to famine later in the year.
 * 18 August – the Roman Catholic Tuam Cathedral is dedicated.
 * 4 September – HMS Terror (1813), badly damaged during an Arctic expedition, is beached at Lough Swilly to save her.

Arts and literature

 * February – Charles Lever begins publishing his fictional The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer in Dublin University Magazine.
 * Thomas Crofton Croker publishes Popular Songs of Ireland.
 * Tyrone Power stages and acts in the Irish-themed plays St. Patrick's Eve (written by himself) and Rory O'More (adapted from Samuel Lover's novel).

Births

 * 16 March – Frederick Wolseley, inventor of the sheep shearing machine (died 1899 in the United Kingdom).
 * 7 May – John Michael Clancy, Democrat United States Representative from New York (died 1903 in the United States).
 * 24 May – John McDonald, soldier and Congressman in America (died 1917 in the United States).
 * 28 May – George Ashlin, architect (died 1921).
 * 1 August (bapt.) – Mary Harris Jones ("Mother Jones"), labor leader in America (died 1930 in the United States).
 * 7 August
 * James Brenan, painter (died 1907).
 * Allan James Foley ("Signor Foli"), operatic bass singer (died 1899 in the United Kingdom).
 * 4 September – Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne, lawyer and Lord Chancellor of Ireland (died 1913).
 * 1 October – Edward James Saunderson, leader of the Irish Unionist Party in the British House of Commons (died 1906).
 * Full date unknown
 * Patrick Graham, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (died 1875).

Deaths

 * 20 January – Arthur Gore, 3rd Earl of Arran, politician (born 1761).
 * 23 January – John Field, composer and pianist (born 1782).
 * 1 February – Edward Donovan, writer, traveller and amateur zoologist (born 1768).
 * 27 February – Lord Kingsborough, antiquarian (born 1795).
 * 20 June – William IV of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (born 1765).
 * 13 July – William Hare, 1st Earl of Listowel, peer and MP (born 1751).
 * 24 November – Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty, diplomat, Irish, and later British, MP (born 1767).
 * Full date unknown
 * Gilbert Austin, educator, clergyman and author (Rborn 1753).