1814 in Ireland

Events from the year 1814 in Ireland.

Events

1 February – Royal Belfast Academical Institution opened as a school and college.{{cite web|title=History|publisher=The Royal Belfast Academical Institution|access-date=2012-08-01|url=http://www.rbai.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3&Itemid=108|archive-date=20 September 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120920001433/http://www.rbai.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3&Itemid=108|url-status=dead}}
18 June – improved navigation of River Shannon between Limerick and Killaloe opens.{{cite book|first=Ruth|last=Delany|title=A celebration of 250 years of Ireland's Inland Waterways|location=Belfast|publisher=Appletree Press|year=1988|isbn=0-86281-200-3|page=55}}
25 December – inauguration of Chapel Royal, Dublin, designed by Francis Johnston.
Apprentice Boys of Derry Club formed (although the siege of Derry has been celebrated from the 17th century).{{cite web|title=Parades and Marches – Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events|work=Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN)|url=http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/parade/chpa2.htm|access-date=2010-01-28}}
William Shaw Mason's A Statistical Account or Parochial Survey of Ireland, drawn up from the communications of the clergy begins publication in Dublin.{{cite DNB|wstitle=Mason, William Shaw|volume=36}}

27 May – Harriet Smithson makes her stage debut at the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin, as Albina Mandeville in Frederick Reynolds's The Will.{{cite web|first=Peter|last=Raby|title=Smithson , Harriet Constance (1800–1854)|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25943|access-date=2012-11-12|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/25943}} {{ODNBsub}}
Sydney, Lady Morgan, publishes her novel O'Donnell.

10 January – Aubrey Thomas de Vere, poet and critic (died 1902).
9 May – John Brougham, actor and dramatist (died 1880).
18 August – David Moriarty, Roman Catholic Bishop of Kerry (died 1877).
28 August – Sheridan Le Fanu, writer (died 1873).
3 September – Richard Graves MacDonnell, lawyer, judge and colonial governor (died 1881).
14 October – Thomas Osborne Davis, lawyer and writer, author of the song "A Nation Once Again" (died 1845).
3 December – William Fitzgerald, Church of Ireland Bishop of Killaloe (died 1883).
;Full date unknown
:*Daniel Devlin, businessman and City Chamberlain in New York (died 1867).
:*John Lalor, journalist and author (died 1856).
:*Mary O'Connell, nurse during the American Civil War (died 1897).
:*Charles O'Hea, Catholic Priest, baptised Ned Kelly and ministered to him before he was hanged in 1880 (died 1903).
:*John Purcell, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India, later killed in action (died 1857).

8 May (suicide) – William Nelson Gardiner, eccentric engraver and bookseller (born 1766).
17 June – Henry Tresham, historical painter (born c.1751).
9 July – Daniel Delany, Bishop of Kildare and Leighton, founder of two Catholic religious congregations and St Patrick's College, Carlow.
10 August – George Ogle, politician (born 1742).
21 November – Juan Mackenna, soldier of fortune (born 1771).
9 December – Arturo O'Neill, soldier of fortune (born 1736).
20 December – Robert Uniacke Fitzgerald, lawyer, soldier and politician (born 1751).
Geoffrey Font, centenarian (born 1709).