1808 in Ireland

Events from the year 1808 in Ireland.

Events

2 February – Daniel Delany, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, founds the Patrician Brothers.
15 February – laying of the foundation stone for Nelson's Pillar in Dublin
6 June – the Bank of Ireland moves its premises to the former Irish Houses of Parliament on College Green, Dublin.
12 July – Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Wellesley embarks troops at Cork to join the Peninsular War in Portugal.{{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|access-date=2012-10-12|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/29001}} {{ODNBsub}}
15 August – seven men, including Edmund Rice, take religious promises under John Power, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, as the Presentation Brothers.{{cite book|last=Normoyle|first=M. C.|title=A Tree is Planted: the Life and Times of Edmund Rice|publisher=Congregation of Christian Brothers|year=1976|page=71}}
22 August – the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St Mary and St Anne in Cork is dedicated.{{cite web|title=August 1808|url=http://www.corkcathedral.ie/history/j/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=22&Itemid=20|publisher=Cathedral Parish|location=Cork|access-date=2012-07-17}}{{Dead link|date=February 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Mary Leadbeater's Poems published.
Rev. Charles Maturin's novel The Wild Irish Boy published under the pseudonym Dennis Jasper Murphy.
Thomas Moore's A Selection of Irish Melodies (first two volumes) published.

10 February – Hugh Douglas Hamilton, artist (b. c1734).
30 September – Peter Russell, gambler, government official, politician and judge in Upper Canada (born 1733).