1822 in Ireland

{{short description|none}} thumb|right|alt=Painting of the ship being swept into the rocks|The packet ship ''Albion'' runs aground, on the coast of Ireland off Garretstown near Old Point of Kinsale on April 22 1822  {{YearInIrelandNav | 1822 }} Events from the year '''1822 in Ireland'''.

==Events== * 22 April – The ''Albion'', a Black Ball Line trans-Atlantic packet, is driven ashore at Old Head of Kinsale with the loss of 46 of the 54 aboard.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ship News|newspaper=The Morning Chronicle|location=London|date=1822-04-27|issue=16544}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Times|location=London|title=Shipwreck Of The Albion Packet|date=1822-10-12|page=3|issue=11668}}</ref> * 7 June – ''The Constitution; or, Cork Morning Post'' begins publication. * 19 July – Percy Jocelyn, Anglican Bishop of Clogher, is caught in a compromising position with a young Grenadier Guardsman at a public house in London. He breaks bail and flees England. In October, an Irish ecclesiastical court deprives him of office.<ref>{{cite web|last=Geoghegan|first=Patrick M.|title=Jocelyn, Percy|url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/jocelyn-percy-a4281|work=Dictionary of Irish Biography|date=October 2009|publisher=Royal Irish Academy|location=Dublin|accessdate=2024-03-16}}</ref> * 21 September – HMS ''Confiance'', a Royal Navy {{sclass|Cruizer|brig-sloop|1}} of 1813, is wrecked between Mizen Head and Three Castles Head near Crookhaven with the loss of all 100 aboard.<ref>{{cite book|last=Gossett|first=William Patrick|year=1986|title=The Lost Ships of the Royal Navy, 1793–1900|location=London|publisher=Mansell|isbn=0-7201-1816-6|page=100}}</ref> * Public gas lighting in Belfast.<ref>{{cite journal|title=History of the Town Gas Industry in Ireland 1823-1980|first=Colum|last=McCabe|journal=Dublin Historical Record|volume=45|issue=1|date=Spring 1992|pages=28–40|publisher=Old Dublin Society|jstor=30100966}}</ref> * Mary Leadbeater's ''Cottage Biography, being a Collection of Lives of the Irish Peasantry'' is published.

==Births== *16 February – James Thomson, engineer and physicist (died 1892). *21 February – Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, statesman, three times Chief Secretary for Ireland, Viceroy of India (assassinated 1872 in the Andaman Islands). *31 August – Timothy Anglin, politician in Canada and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (died 1896). *September – Denis Dynon, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Chota Behar, India (died 1863). *2 October – James Pearson, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Jhansi, India (died 1900). *11 October – Alexander John Arbuthnot, British official in India and writer (died 1907). *November – John Divane, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India (died 1888). *4 December – Frances Power Cobbe, social reformer, feminist theorist, pioneer animal rights activist and writer (died 1904). *11 December – John Nicholson, military hero in India (died 1857). *;Full date unknown *:*James Byrne, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Jhansi, India (died 1872). *:*Maxwell Henry Close, geologist (died 1903). *:*Joseph Philip Ronayne, civil engineer (died 1876).

==Deaths== *15 February – Pierce Butler, soldier, planter, statesman, one of United States' Founding Fathers, represented South Carolina in the Continental Congress and the U.S. Senate (born 1744). *25 March – Robert Blake, dentist, first State Dentist of Dublin (born 1772). *12 August – Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, politician, represented the United Kingdom at the Congress of Vienna (born 1769). *John Bowden, ecclesiastical architect.

==See also== *1822 in Scotland *1822 in Wales

==References== {{reflist}}

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