1828 in Ireland

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1800s; 1810s; 1820s; 1830s; 1840s;
See also:	1828 in the United Kingdom; Other events of 1828; List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1828 in Ireland.

Events

In the election in County Clare, Daniel O'Connell wins the seat, with the Catholic Association.^[1]
Belfast Botanic Gardens opens as the private Royal Belfast Botanical Gardens.

1 January - Richard Phelan, fourth Roman Catholic Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (died 1904).
28 January - William Gorman Wills, dramatist and painter (died 1891).
21 March - William Davis Ardagh, lawyer, judge and politician in Canada (died 1893).
March - Patrick Cleburne, major general in Confederate States Army in the American Civil War, killed at the Battle of Franklin (died 1864).
23 April - Fenton John Anthony Hort, theologian and writer (died 1892).
9 May - Charles Kickham, Irish revolutionary, novelist, poet, journalist (died 1882).
11 May - William Walsh, U.S. Congressman in Maryland (died 1892).
15 June - Thomas Newenham Deane, architect (died 1899).
27 June
- Cornelius Coughlan, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India (died 1915).
- Bryan O'Loghlen, politician in Australia, 13th Premier of Victoria (died 1905).
26 August - William Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin (died 1897).
22 September - Canon James Goodman, Irish music collector (died 1896).
22 November - Lydia Shackleton, botanical artist (died 1914)
27 November - Samuel Mullen, bookseller (died 1890).
31 December - Fitz James O'Brien, author (died 1862).