1863 in Ireland

Events from the year 1863 in Ireland.

Events

 * 2 March – the Ulster Railway, which began construction in 1839, reaches Clones.
 * 10 March – riots in Cork, related to nationalist unrest.
 * 21 August – American clipper Anglo Saxon westbound is captured and burned by Confederate privateer Florida off Old Head of Kinsale.
 * 28 November – first edition of The Irish People.

Arts and literature

 * Belleek Pottery begins to produce Parian Ware.
 * Sheridan Le Fanu publishes The House by the Churchyard.
 * Ellen Bridget O'Connell publishes Derrynane Abbey in 1832, and other Poems.

Births

 * 1 February – George Carew, 4th Baron Carew (died 1926).
 * February – George J. Gaskin, "silver-voiced Irish tenor" (died 1920 in the United States)
 * 11 March – May Guinness, painter (died 1955).
 * 17 March – P. H. McCarthy, labour leader and mayor of San Francisco (died 1933).
 * 31 March – Sir Ion Hamilton Benn, 1st Baronet, businessman and British politician (died 1961).
 * 2 April – Mabel Cahill, tennis player.
 * 9 April – Henry De Vere Stacpoole, ship's doctor and author (died 1951).
 * 12 August – Margaretta Eagar, nurse for the four daughters of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra and memoirist (died 1936).
 * 25 August – Eugene O'Growney, priest and scholar (died 1899).
 * 7 September – Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville, Royal Navy hydrographic surveyor, murdered by Irish Republican Army (died 1936).
 * 26 September – Caesar Litton Falkiner, Irish Unionist Party politician, barrister, writer and historian (died 1908).
 * 24 November – Frederick Thomas Trouton, physicist responsible for Trouton's Rule (died 1922).
 * Full date unknown – F. Elrington Ball, author and legal historian (died 1928).

Deaths

 * 1 January – Ambrose Madden, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1854 in the Crimea, at Little Inkerman (born 1806).
 * 16 February – Denis Dynon, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Chota Behar, India (born 1822).
 * 21 February – Samuel Hill, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India, later killed in action (born 1826).
 * 7 July – William Mulready, painter (born 1786).
 * 8 July – Francis Kenrick, headed the Diocese of Philadelphia, then was Archbishop of Baltimore (born 1796).
 * 24 July – Thomas Arthur Bellew, landowner and politician (born 1820).
 * 17 October – John Dunlay, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (born 1831).
 * 10 December – James FitzGibbon, British soldier and hero of the War of 1812 (born 1782).
 * 10 December – Charles C. Ingham, painter and founder of New York National Academy of Design (born 1797).