{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{YearInIrelandNav | 1812 }} Events from the year '''1812 in Ireland'''. ==Events== *1 October – English balloonist James Sadler starts a balloon flight from Belvedere House near Mullingar in an attempt to cross the Irish Sea. He fails and almost drowns as a result. *October – a storm washes away temporary barracks erected on Tuskar Rock for lighthouse construction, killing 14 workmen. *Robert Peel, Chief Secretary for Ireland, introduces a mobile constabulary in Ireland, intended to be less partial than the yeomanry stationed in Ulster at this time, who are nearly all Orangemen.<ref>{{cite web|title=Parades and Marches – Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events|work=Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN)|url=http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/parade/chpa2.htm|access-date=2010-01-28}}</ref> *Landowner John D'Arcy is granted a patent to hold a market at his new town of Clifden.

==Births== *14 May – Charles William Russell, Roman Catholic clergyman and scholar (died 1880). *19 May – Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer (died 1871). *29 May – Thomas O'Hagan, 1st Baron O'Hagan, Lord Chancellor of Ireland (died 1885). *5 July – Frederick Edward Maning, writer and judge in New Zealand (died 1883). *12 July – C. P. Meehan, priest, poet and writer (died 1890). *4 November – James Alipius Goold, Roman Catholic Bishop and Archbishop of Melbourne (died 1886). *;Full date unknown<!--This is a description list; please see Help:List before changing--> *:*George Allman, naturalist, professor of natural history in Edinburgh (died 1898). *:*John Benson architect for Irish Industrial Exhibition, Great Industrial Exhibition (1853) and the 1855 Cork Opera House (died 1874)

==Deaths== *25 April – Edmond Malone, Shakespeare scholar and literary critic (born 1741). *22 June – Richard Kirwan, scientist (born 1733). *2 August – Edward Smyth, sculptor (born 1749). *27 August – John Blaquiere, 1st Baron de Blaquiere, soldier and politician (born 1732). *;Full date unknown<!--This is a description list; please see Help:List before changing--> *:*Robert Owenson, actor and author (born 1744).

==See also== *1812 in Scotland *1812 in Wales

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