1833 in Ireland

Events

• August – Mount Melleray Abbey in the Knockmealdown Mountains is founded, the first Cistercian foundation in Ireland in modern times.
• 10 August – major fire in stores of The Custom House, Dublin, sets River Liffey aflame.
• 28 August – the school which will evolve into Castleknock College is opened in Dublin by the Vincentian community.
• Katherine Sophia Kane's The Irish Flora is published anonymously.

  Arts and literature

• Early – Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, aged 14, makes his stage debut, at the Dublin Theatre, playing William Tell.

  Births

• 21 January – Joseph Prosser, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sevastopol, Crimea.
• 8 February – Launt Thompson, sculptor.
• 25 March – Sir Theobald Hubert Burke, 13th Baronet.
• 4 May – Michael N. Nolan, U.S. Representative from New York, mayor of Albany.
• 29 May – William Hare, 3rd Earl of Listowel, peer and Liberal politician.
• 4 June – Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, soldier.
• 17 July – Hugh Talbot Burgoyne, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 in the Sea of Azov, Crimea.
• 3 November – William Knox Leet, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 at Inhlobana, Zululand, South Africa.
• 7 November – William Temple, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1863 at Rangiriri, New Zealand.
• Henry James O'Farrell, would-be assassin.

  Deaths

• 28 March – William Thompson, political and philosophical writer and social reformer.
• 3 May – Nicholas Tuite MacCarthy, Jesuit preacher.

  In fiction

• Brian Friel's play Translations is set in County Donegal in 1833.