1807 in Ireland

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Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s
See also:	1807 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1807 List of years in Ireland

Events

• March - Sir Arthur Wellesley is appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland.
• 18 May - Exiled Irish rebel Michael Dwyer is acquitted of a charge of conspiring to mount an Irish insurrection against British rule in New South Wales (Australia), but subsequently stripped of his free settler status.
• 20 November - Sinking of the Rochdale and the Prince of Wales: The British troopships Rochdale (brig) and Prince of Wales (packet ship) sink in a storm in Dublin Bay with the loss of around 400 lives.

Arts and literature

• Actor Edmund Kean plays leading parts in the Belfast theatre with Sarah Siddons.

Births

• 7 March - John McCaul, educator, theologian, and the second president of the University of Toronto (died 1887).
• 10 March - James Fintan Lalor, revolutionary, journalist and writer (died 1849).
• 9 September - Richard Chenevix Trench, né Richard Trench, Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland) (died 1886).
• 27 September - John T. Mullock, Roman Catholic Bishop of St. John's, Newfoundland (died 1869).
• 23 October - Baroness Tautphoeus, née Jemima Montgomery, novelist (died 1893).
• 14 December - Francis Hincks, politician in Canada (died 1885).

Full date unknown

• Robert Cane, doctor, member of the Repeal Association and the Irish Confederation, Mayor of Kilkenny (died 1858).
• Sir Henry Thomas, police magistrate in London (died 1876).

Deaths

• 8 February - Dorcas Blackwood, 1st Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (born 1726).
• 5 June - Boyle Roche, politician (born 1736).
• Nathaniel Grogan, painter (born 1740).