1830 in Ireland

	1830 ; in; Ireland
Decades:	1810s • 1820s • 1830s • 1840s • 1850s
Centuries:	17th • 18th • 19th • 20th • 21st
See also:	1830 in the United Kingdom; Other events of 1830; List of years in Ireland

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February - First Roman Catholics take their seats in the House of Commons at Westminster, among then Daniel O'Connell (for County Clare) and Richard More O'Ferrall (Kildare).^[1]
12 July - Orange Institution parades lead to confrontations between Orangemen and Ribbonmen in Maghera and Castledawson in County Londonderry. Several Catholic homes are burned by Protestants following these clashes.^[2]
July - Potato crop failure the previous year leads to widespread famine. Food riots in Limerick and Leitrim.
August - First Dublin Horse Show.
November - Ribbonmen attack an Orange band, puncturing some of their drums. The Orangemen retaliate by burning the Catholic village of Maghery, County Armagh, to the ground.^[2]
Undated
- Austins established in the Diamond, Derry. As of 2010 it will be the world's oldest independent department store.^[3]
- William Carleton publishes Confessions of a Reformed Ribbonman, a fictionalised account of the Wildgoose Lodge Murders of 1816.

1 January - William James Lendrim, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at the Siege of Sevastopol, Crimea (d.1891).
10 April - John Sullivan, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea (d.1884).
1 May - Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, labor and community organizer, member of the Industrial Workers of the World, and Socialist in America (d.1930).
12 May - Maurice O'Rorke, politician and Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives (d.1916).
25 May - Hugh Nelson, politician in Canada and Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia (d.1893).

23 July - John O' Leary, Fenian poet (d.1907).^[4]
29 August - Charles Christopher Bowen, politician in New Zealand (d.1917).
16 September - Patrick Francis Moran, third Archbishop of Sydney (d.1911).
20 September - Arthur Thomas Moore, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at the Battle of Khushab, Persia (d.1913).
20 September - Hans Garrett Moore, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1877 at Komgha, South Africa (d.1889).
October - John Connors, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol in the Crimea (d.1857).
22 November - Justin McCarthy, politician, historian and novelist (d.1912).
24 December - Harry Hammon Lyster, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Calpee, India (d.1922).

Brian Dillon, Fenian leader (d. c1872).
Robert Dwyer Joyce, music collector and writer (d.1883).
Charles McCorrie, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea (d.1857).
William R. Roberts, diplomat, Fenian Society member and United States Representative from New York (d.1897).
Eyre Massey Shaw, Superintendent of the (London) Metropolitan Fire Brigade (d.1908).

26 June - George IV of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (b. 1762).
11 October - Richard John Uniacke, lawyer, politician, member of Nova Scotia Legislative Assembly and Attorney General of Nova Scotia (b.1753).

^ Fisher, D. R. (2009). The House of Commons, 1820-1832. History of Parliament. VI. Cambridge University Press. pp. 535–6.
^ ^a ^b "Parades and Marches - Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events". Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/parade/chpa2.htm. Retrieved 28 January 2010.
^ Hamill, Norman (2008). "About Us - Seven Generations". Austins. http://www.austinsstore.com/Pages/about_us/seven_generations. Retrieved 2010-11-05.
^ O'Day, Alan. "O'Leary, John (1830–1907)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, May 2006.