1838 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1838 in Ireland.

Events

• 4–22 April - The paddle steamer SS Sirius (1837) makes the Transatlantic Crossing to New York from Cork in eighteen days, though not using steam continuously.
• 15 August - Following a year of widespread hunger the government institutes relief work and reduces the tithe rent for the poor by the Poor Law and Tithe Acts.
• Foundation of a temperance society in Cork known as the Knights of Father Mathew by Theobald Mathew, a capuchin friar.

Births

• January - Richard W. Dowling, victorious commander at the Second Battle of Sabine Pass in the American Civil War (died 1867).
• 2 February - Nathaniel Burslem, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1860 at the Taku Forts, China (died 1865).
• 13 February - Michael Sullivan, physician, professor and politician in Canada (died 1915).
• 26 March - William Edward Hartpole Lecky, historian (died 1903).
• 3 June - Daniel O'Reilly, U.S. Representative from New York (died 1911).
• 5 July - William Robinson, gardener (died 1935).
• 8 July - Colonel John Burke, soldier in America (died 1914).
• 28 July - Augustus Nicholas Burke, artist (died 1891).
• 24 August - James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn, politician and diplomat (died 1913).
• 11 September - John Ireland, third Bishop and first Archbishop of Saint Paul, Minnesota (died 1918).
• 18 September - Sir Thomas Drew, architect, first designer of St Anne's Cathedral (died 1910).
• 1 November - Anthony Traill, provost of Trinity College Dublin (died 1914).
• 18 December - Michael Thomas Stenson, politician in Canada (died 1912).

Full date unknown

• James Gildea, soldier and philanthropist, founded the Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association (died 1920).
• John Philip Nolan, soldier, landowner and politician (died 1912).
• Dudley Stagpoole, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1863 near Poutoko in Taranaki, New Zealand (died 1911).

Deaths

• 25 August - William Annesley, 3rd Earl Annesley, politician (born 1772).
• Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin, author, teacher, draper and politician (born 1780).