1843 in Ireland

Events from the year 1843 in Ireland.

Events

 * January – Daniel O'Connell proclaims 1843 as the "Repeal Year".
 * 31 January – Queen's Bridge in Belfast opens.
 * 21 February – repeal (of the Act of Union) debate in Dublin Corporation.
 * 17 March – earthquake in the Irish Sea.
 * 11 June
 * Series of monster meetings to agitate for repeal begins at Tuam.
 * O'Connell's "Mallow defiance".
 * 15 August – repeal meeting at Tara.
 * 17 August – Loreto Abbey, Dalkey opened as a girls' boarding and day school by the Sisters of Loreto.
 * 18 August – Dalkey Atmospheric Railway opens unofficially.
 * 7 October – O'Connell gives in to government prohibition of Clontarf meeting planned for the next day. However, he is charged with conspiracy a few days later.
 * November – Devon Commission appointed to research the problems with land leases.
 * Work starts on the building of Crumlin Road Prison in Belfast.
 * George Cannock and Andrew White establish the Dublin business that becomes Arnotts department store.

Arts and literature

 * Charles Lever's novel Arthur O'Leary: His wanderings and ponderings in many lands is published serially in Dublin University Magazine and Tom Burke of Ours begins serial publication in Dublin.

Births

 * 11 January – C. Y. O'Connor, engineer in Australia (died 1902).
 * 3 May – Edward Dowden, critic and poet (died 1913).
 * 14 August – Thomas Workman, entomologist and arachnologist (died 1900).
 * 6 November – William James Craig, Shakespearean scholar (died 1906).
 * 24 November – Richard Croker, politician in America and a leader of New York City's Tammany Hall (died 1922).
 * 21 December – Thomas Bracken, poet (died 1898 in New Zealand).
 * 25 December
 * Albert Cashier, born Jennie Hodgers, soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War, lived as a man (died 1915 in the United States).
 * George Fisher, Mayor of Wellington (died 1905 in New Zealand).
 * 28 December – George Thomas Stokes, ecclesiastical historian (died 1898).
 * Full date unknown – Joanna Hiffernan, artists' model (died after 1903).

Deaths

 * 19 February – Michael Joseph Quin, author, journalist and editor (born 1796).
 * 11 May – William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey, politician and statesman (born 1783).
 * 10 August – Robert Adrain, scientist and mathematician in America (born 1775).
 * 16 November – Abraham Colles, professor of Anatomy, Surgery and Physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (born 1773).
 * 21 December – Edward Bunting, musician (born 1773).