1825 in Ireland

Events

• 9 March – the Unlawful Societies Act proscribes both the Catholic Association and the Orange Order.
• 27 June – the Excise Licences Act raises Irish excise licences to bring them in line with those of Great Britain.
• Foundation of the Provincial Bank of Ireland.
• Portlaw in County Waterford is established as a model village by the Malcomson family, Quaker cotton mill owners.
• Paddle steamers first introduced on the Portpatrick to Donaghadee packet service.
• Over 1,800 Irish residents leave Cork to emigrate to Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, in a scheme administered by Canadian trader and politician Peter Robinson.

  Arts and literature

• April – the first series of Tales by the O'Hara Family, by John and Michael Banim, is published.
• May – the Royal Hibernian Academy holds its first exhibition of art in Dublin.
• Thomas Crofton Croker publishes the first volumes of his Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland.
• Charles Maturin's novel Leixlip Castle is published posthumously.
• William Hamilton Maxwell's military adventure novel O'Hara is published.
• Sydney, Lady Morgan, publishes Absenteeism.

  Births

• 26 January – James Stephens, founding member of the Fenian Brotherhood movement.
• 13 April – D'Arcy McGee, journalist and politician in Canada.
• 16 May
• *Valentine Browne, 4th Earl of Kenmare, peer.
• *John McGovern, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India.
• 17 June – Richard Harte Keatinge, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Chundairee, India.
• 4 November – Frederick Dobson Middleton, British Army general and commander of the Canadian Militia in the North-West Rebellion.
• ;Full date unknown
• :*William Dowling, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India.
• :*Myles O'Reilly, Catholic soldier and writer.

  Deaths

• 6 February – John Connolly, second bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of New York.
• 22 August – Richard Hely-Hutchinson, 1st Earl of Donoughmore, politician.
• John Templeton, naturalist and botanist.