1823 in Ireland

Events from the year 1823 in Ireland.

Events

Catholic Association formed by Daniel O'Connell, to further Catholic emancipation.{{cite book|editor1=Moody, T. W. |editor2=Martin, F. X. |year=1967|title=The Course of Irish History|publisher=Mercier Press|location=Cork|page=250}}{{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}}
October – HMS Essex, a former American frigate of 1799, is hulked at Cork to serve as a prison ship; from 1824 to 1834 she serves in this capacity at Kingstown.{{cite book|first=Rif|last=Winfield|title=British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates|location=Barnsley|publisher=Seaforth|year=2008|isbn=1861762461|pages=188–189}}

5 August – the Royal Hibernian Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture is established by letters patent in Dublin.{{cite book|title=An Historical Guide to the City of Dublin|url=https://archive.org/details/anhistoricalgui02wriggoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/anhistoricalgui02wriggoog/page/n311 239]|last=Wright|first=George Newenham|author-link=George Newenham Wright|year=1825|publisher=Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy}}

1 January – Edward Butler, lawyer and politician in Australia (died 1879).
12 January – James Donnelly, Bishop of the Diocese of Clogher (died 1893).
23 January – Abraham Fitzgibbon, railway civil engineer in the British empire (died 1887 in England)
26 March – Ann Jellicoe, educationalist (died 1880).
7 July – John Kells Ingram, poet, scholar, economist and historian of economic thought (died 1907).
7 September – Kevin Izod O'Doherty, transported to Australia in 1849, physician and politician (died 1905).
10 September – James O'Connor, first Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Omaha (died 1890).
16 September – James O'Reilly, lawyer and politician in Canada (died 1875).
;Full date unknown
:*Thomas Devin Reilly, revolutionary, Young Irelander and journalist (died 1854).
:*John Ryan, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India, killed in action (died 1858).