1836 in Ireland

Events

• 30 January – the Intrinsic sinks off Kilkee with the loss of all fourteen on board.
• February – foundation of the Ulster Bank in Belfast.
• 4 April – Daniel O'Connell gives a speech on "Justice for Ireland".
• 4 May – the Ancient Order of Hibernians, an Irish Catholic fraternal organization, is founded in New York City.
• 23 May – Irish Constabulary Act provides central organisation for the police in Ireland; an Act of 4 July provides for formation of a Dublin Police Office.
• 4 June – The Sligo Champion newspaper is first published.
• August – following one of the coldest summers in over fifty years there is widespread failure of the potato crop.
• 19 September – first burial at Mount Jerome Cemetery in Harold's Cross, Dublin, a commercial Protestant burial ground.
• End of Tithe War.
• Foundation of the Royal Bank of Ireland, a constituent of Allied Irish Banks.
• Foundation of the Ulster Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
• Irish emigration to Montevideo, Uruguay, peaks.

  Arts and literature

• Francis Sylvester Mahony's light verse The Reliques of Father Prout published.

  Births

• 17 January – William MacCormac, surgeon.
• 16 February – Robert Halpin, master mariner.
• May – Thomas Lane, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1860 at the Taku Forts, China.
• 9 June – Henry Arthur McArdle, painter in the United States.
• 10 October – Dalton McCarthy, lawyer and politician in Canada.
• Lot Flannery, sculptor in the United States.

  Deaths

• 31 March – Edward Southwell Ruthven, Repealer politician and member of the United Kingdom Parliament
• 8 August – James Blackwood, 2nd Baron Dufferin and Claneboye, politician.
• 21 August – William Cusac Smith, Baronet, judge