{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{More citations needed|date=April 2023}} {{YearInIrelandNav | 1863 }} 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.<ref name="riots">{{cite journal|journal=The Tablet|page=12|date=21 March 1863|url=http://archive.thetablet.co.uk/article/21st-march-1863/12/the-riot-of-tuesday-the-10th|title=The riot of Tuesday the 10th|access-date=11 March 2014|archive-date=11 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140311181347/http://archive.thetablet.co.uk/article/21st-march-1863/12/the-riot-of-tuesday-the-10th|url-status=dead}}</ref> *21 August – American clipper ''Anglo Saxon'' westbound is captured and burned by Confederate privateer ''Florida'' off Old Head of Kinsale.<ref>{{cite book|first=Daniel J.|last=Nolan|title=Clippers: the ships that shaped the world|publisher=Malbay Publishing|year=2011|location=Bray|isbn=978-1-908726-00-1|page=97}}</ref> *28 November – first edition of ''The Irish People''.<ref>{{cite book|editor1=Moody, T. W. |editor2=Martin, F. X. |year=1967|title=The Course of Irish History|publisher=Mercier Press|location=Cork|page=377}}</ref>
==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).
==See also== *1863 in Scotland *1863 in Wales
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