1842 in Ireland

Events from the year 1842 in Ireland.

Events

 * 15 October – The Nation newspaper is founded in Dublin.

Births

 * 6 February – Jeremiah O'Sullivan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Mobile (died 1896).
 * 10 February – Agnes Mary Clerke, astronomer and writer (died 1907).
 * 9 May – William Hone, cricketer (died 1919).
 * 23 August – Osborne Reynolds, engineer and prominent innovator in the understanding of fluid dynamics (died 1912).
 * 3 September – John Devoy, Fenian organiser and exile (died 1928 in the United States).

Deaths

 * 25 March – William Beatty, ship's surgeon on HMS Victory during the Battle of Trafalgar (born 1773).
 * 11 April – John England, first Catholic Bishop of Charleston, South Carolina (born 1786).
 * 8 June – Henry Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton, politician. (born 1776).
 * 12 August – William Corbet, member of the United Irishmen, soldier, Commander-in-Chief to French forces in Greece (born 1779).
 * 21 August – William Maginn, journalist and writer (born 1794).
 * 30 August – John Banim, dramatist and playwright (born 1798).
 * 28 September – Sir Michael O'Loghlen, 1st Baronet, judge, politician and Attorney-General for Ireland (born 1789).
 * 4 October – Lowry Cole, soldier, politician and MP for Enniskillen from 1797 to 1800, Governor of Mauritius and Cape Colony (born 1772).