1818 in Ireland

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Events

• 6 January - Opening of General Post Office (Dublin).

Births

• 28 January - Robert Carew, 2nd Baron Carew, politician (d.1881).
• 4 April - Thomas Mayne Reid, novelist (d.1883).
• April - Cecil Frances Humphreys Alexander, hymn-writer and poet (d.1895).
• 24 May - John Henry Foley, sculptor (d.1874).
• 21 June - Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet, art collector and MP (d.1890).
• 20 August - John Ball, politician, naturalist and Alpine traveller (d.1889).
• 12 October - John Cuffe, 3rd Earl of Desart, Conservative politician. (d.1865).
• December - Thomas Roberts Ferguson, businessman and politician in Ontario (d.1879).

Full date unknown

• Alexander Armstrong, naval surgeon, explorer and author (d.1899).
• Catherine Hayes, opera diva (d.1861).

Deaths

• 27 January - John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn, politician (b.1756).
• 23 December - Philip Francis, politician and pamphleteer (b.1740).

Full date unknown

• Richard Barrett, poet and United Irishman (b.1740).