1811 in Ireland

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.{{cite book|editor1=Moody, T. W. |editor2=Martin, F. X. |year=1967|title=The Course of Irish History|publisher=Mercier Press|location=Cork|page=374}}{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/statepolicyiniri00corcrich/statepolicyiniri00corcrich_djvu.txt|access-date=2012-08-01|title=State Policy in Irish Education, A.D. 1536 to 1816, exemplified in documents|editor=Corcoran, T.|location=Dublin|publisher=Fallon|year=1916|pages=203–7|chapter=A.D. 1813: First Report of the Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor of Ireland (The 'Kildare Place Society')}}
The Missionary: An Indian Tale, a romance novela by Irish author Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan) is published.{{cite book|author1=Diane Long Hoeveler|author2=Jeffrey Cass|title=Interrogating Orientalism: Contextual Approaches and Pedagogical Practices|chapter=Chapter 8|date=1 January 2006|publisher=Ohio State University Press|isbn=978-0-8142-1032-1}}
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.{{cite book|last=Hepper|first=David J.|year=1994|title=British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650–1859|location=Rotherfield|publisher=Jean Boudriot|isbn=0-948864-30-3}}

James Sheridan Knowles' play Brian Boroihme; or, The Maid of Erin is performed in Belfast.

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).
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Patrick Murray, theologian (died 1882).