1863 in Ireland
Events from the year 1863 in Ireland.Events
- 2 March – the Ulster Railway, which began construction in 1839, reaches Clones.
- 10 March – riots in Cork, related to nationalist unrest.
- 21 August – American clipper Anglo Saxon westbound is captured and burned by Confederate privateer Florida off Old Head of Kinsale.
- 28 November – first edition of The Irish People.
Arts and literature
- Belleek Pottery begins to produce Parian Ware.
- Sheridan Le Fanu publishes The House by the Churchyard.
- Ellen Bridget O'Connell publishes Derrynane Abbey in 1832, and other Poems.
Births
- 1 February – George Carew, 4th Baron Carew.
- 11 March – May Guinness, painter.
- 17 March – P. H. McCarthy, labour leader and mayor of San Francisco.
- 31 March – Sir Ion Hamilton Benn, 1st Baronet, businessman and British politician.
- 2 April – Mabel Cahill, tennis player.
- 9 April – Henry De Vere Stacpoole, ship's doctor and author.
- 12 August – Margaretta Eagar, nurse for the four daughters of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra and memoirist.
- 25 August – Eugene O'Growney, priest and scholar.
- 7 September – Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville, Royal Navy hydrographic surveyor, murdered by Irish Republican Army.
- 26 September – Caesar Litton Falkiner, Irish Unionist Party politician, barrister, writer and historian.
- 24 November – Frederick Thomas Trouton, physicist responsible for Trouton's Rule.
- ;Full date unknown
- :*F. Elrington Ball, author and legal historian.
- :*John Mahony, Kerry hurler.
Deaths
- 1 January – Ambrose Madden, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1854 in the Crimea, at Little Inkerman.
- 16 February – Denis Dynon, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Chota Behar, India.
- 21 February – Samuel Hill, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India, later killed in action.
- 7 July – William Mulready, painter.
- 8 July – Francis Kenrick, headed the Diocese of Philadelphia, then was Archbishop of Baltimore.
- 24 July – Thomas Arthur Bellew, landowner and politician.
- 17 October – John Dunlay, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India.
- 10 December – James FitzGibbon, British soldier and hero of the War of 1812.
- 10 December – Charles C. Ingham, painter and founder of New York National Academy of Design.
