1842 in Ireland

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Events

• 15 October - The Nation newspaper is founded in Dublin.
• The Ulster Canal is completed.

Births

• 6 February - Jeremiah O'Sullivan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Mobile (d.1896).
• 10 February - Agnes Mary Clerke, astronomer and writer (d.1907).
• 9 May - William Hone, cricketer (d.1919).
• 23 August - Osborne Reynolds, engineer and prominent innovator in the understanding of fluid dynamics (d.1912).

Full date unknown

• John Devoy, Fenian organiser, exiled to America (d.1928).

Deaths

• 11 April - John England, first Catholic Bishop of Charleston, South Carolina (b.1786).
• 8 June - Henry Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton, politician. (b.1776).
• 12 August - William Corbet, member of the United Irishmen, soldier, Commander-in-Chief to French forces in Greece (b.1779).
• 30 August - John Banim, dramatist and playwright (b.1798).
• 28 September - Sir Michael O'Loghlen, 1st Baronet, judge, politician and Attorney-General for Ireland (b.1789).
• 4 October - Lowry Cole, soldier, politician and MP for Enniskillen from 1797 to 1800, Governor of Mauritius and Cape Colony (b.1772).

Full date unknown

• William Beatty, Ship's Surgeon on HMS Victory during the Battle of Trafalgar (b.1773).
• William Maginn, journalist and writer (b.1794).