1825 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1825 in Ireland.
Events
- 9 March – the Unlawful Societies (Ireland) Act proscribes both the Catholic Association and the Orange Order.{{cite book|editor=Moody, T. W.|title=A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1989|isbn=978-0-19-821744-2|display-editors=etal}}{{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}}
- May – the British Ordnance Survey begins its survey of Ireland.{{cite book|authorlink=Rachel Hewitt|first=Rachel|last=Hewitt|title=Map of a Nation: a biography of the Ordnance Survey|location=London|publisher=Granta|orig-year=2010|year=2011|isbn=978-1-84708-254-1|page=246}}
- 27 June – the Excise Licences Act raises Irish excise licences to bring them in line with those of Great Britain.
- Foundation of the Provincial Bank of Ireland.
- Portlaw in County Waterford is established as a model village by the Malcomson family, Quaker cotton mill owners.
- Paddle steamers (Dasher and Arrow) first introduced on the Portpatrick to Donaghadee packet service.{{cite web|title=Portpatrick Harbour|work=Canmore|publisher=Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland|url=http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/60344/details/portpatrick+harbour/|access-date=2014-10-04}}{{cite web|title=To Portpatrick|publisher=Donaghadee Historical Society|url=http://www.donaghadeehistoricalsociety.org.uk/#/to-portpatrick/4548241573|access-date=2014-10-04|archive-date=2014-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413142731/http://www.donaghadeehistoricalsociety.org.uk/#/to-portpatrick/4548241573|url-status=dead}}
- Over 1,800 Irish residents leave Cork to emigrate to Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, in a scheme administered by Canadian trader and politician Peter Robinson.
Arts and literature
- April – the first series of Tales by the O'Hara Family, by John and Michael Banim, is published.
- May – the Royal Hibernian Academy holds its first exhibition of art in Dublin.
- Thomas Crofton Croker publishes the first volumes of his Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland.
- Charles Maturin's novel Leixlip Castle is published posthumously.
- William Hamilton Maxwell's military adventure novel O'Hara is published.
- Sydney, Lady Morgan, publishes Absenteeism.
Births
- 26 January – James Stephens, founding member of the Fenian Brotherhood movement (died 1901).
- 13 April – D'Arcy McGee, journalist and politician in Canada (assassinated 1868).
- 16 May
- Valentine Browne, 4th Earl of Kenmare, peer (died 1905).
- John McGovern, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India (died 1888).
- 17 June – Richard Harte Keatinge, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Chundairee, India (died 1904).
- 4 November – Frederick Dobson Middleton, British Army general and commander of the Canadian Militia in the North-West Rebellion (died 1898).
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- :*William Dowling, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (died 1887).
- :*Myles O'Reilly, Catholic soldier and writer (died 1880).
Deaths
- 6 February – John Connolly, second bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of New York (born 1750).
- 22 August – Richard Hely-Hutchinson, 1st Earl of Donoughmore, politician (born 1756).
- John Templeton, naturalist and botanist (born 1766).