1811 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1811 in Ireland.
Events
- Kildare Place Society (formally, The Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in Ireland) founded as a non-denominational organisation by a group of Dublin philanthropists.[1][2]
- 4 December - Royal Navy frigate HMS Saldanha (1809) is driven in a gale onto rocks in Lough Swilly with no survivors from the estimated 253 aboard.[3]
Arts and literature
- James Sheridan Knowles' play Brian Boroihme; or, The Maid of Erin is performed in Belfast.
Births
- 21 January - James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn, politician and twice Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (died 1885).
- 10 March - Yankee Sullivan, bare knuckle fighter and boxer (died 1856).
- 11 March - Lady Katherine Sophia Kane née Baily, botanist (died 1886).
- 11 November - John Egan, businessman and politician in Ottawa (died 1857).
Full date unknown
- Patrick Murray, theologian (died 1882).
Deaths
- Robert Brooke, soldier, Governor of St Helena (born 1744).
