1807 in Ireland

Events from the year 1807 in Ireland.

Events

March – Sir Arthur Wellesley is appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland.{{cite web|first=Norman|last=Gash|author-link=Norman Gash|title=Wellesley, Arthur, first duke of Wellington (1769–1852)|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29001|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/29001}} {{ODNBsub}}
18 May – exiled Irish rebel Michael Dwyer is acquitted of a charge of conspiring to mount an Irish insurrection against British rule in New South Wales (Australia), but subsequently stripped of his free settler status.
20 November – sinking of the Rochdale and the Prince of Wales: The British troopships Rochdale (brig) and Prince of Wales (packet ship) sink in a storm in Dublin Bay with the loss of around 400 lives.{{cite web|title=Historical Coastal Walking Tour|publisher=Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council|url=http://www.iopener.ie/downloads/iOpener-Dun-Laoghaire-Script.pdf|access-date=2012-07-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211081202/http://www.iopener.ie/downloads/iOpener-Dun-Laoghaire-Script.pdf|archive-date=11 February 2012|url-status=dead}}

Actor Edmund Kean plays leading parts in the Belfast theatre with Sarah Siddons.

28 January – Robert McClure, Arctic explorer (died 1873).
7 March – John McCaul, educator, theologian, and the second president of the University of Toronto (died 1887).
10 March – James Fintan Lalor, revolutionary, journalist and writer (died 1849).
9 September – Richard Chenevix Trench, né Richard Trench, Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland) (died 1886).
27 September – John T. Mullock, Roman Catholic Bishop of St. John's, Newfoundland (died 1869).
23 October – Baroness Tautphoeus, née Jemima Montgomery, novelist (died 1893).
14 December – Francis Hincks, politician in Canada (died 1885).
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:*Robert Cane, doctor, member of the Repeal Association and the Irish Confederation, Mayor of Kilkenny (died 1858).
:*Thomas Henry, police magistrate in London (died 1876).