1802 in Ireland

Events

• First Christian Brothers' school founded by Edmund Rice in Waterford.
• Cork Fever Hospital and House of Recovery founded by Dr. John Milner Barry in Cork.
• Linen Hall Library moves into permanent premises in the White Linen Hall in Belfast.

  Arts and literature

• Henry Boyd completes the first full English translation of Dante's Divine Comedy.
• A collection of Irish language religious verse by Tadhg Gaelach Ó Súilleabháin, Timothy O'Sullivan's Pious Miscellany, is published in Clonmel.

  Births

• 18 April – Robert Patterson, businessman and naturalist.
• 24 May – Robert Baldwin Sullivan, lawyer, judge, and politician in Canada, second Mayor of Toronto.
• 12 December – Robert Templeton, naturalist, artist and entomologist.
• Juan Galindo, born John Galindo, fighter for Central American independence and explorer

  Deaths

• 28 January – Joseph Wall, army officer, colonial governor and murderer
• 2 February – Armar Lowry-Corry, 1st Earl Belmore, politician and High Sheriff.
• 30 March – Aedanus Burke, soldier, judge, and United States Representative from South Carolina.
• 20 July – Isaac Barré, soldier and politician.
• 24 October – John Ramage, artist.