1853 in Ireland

Events from the year 1853 in Ireland.

Events

15 February – City of Dublin Steam Packet Company {{PS|Queen Victoria|1838}}, inward bound from Liverpool, sinks in a snowstorm at night below Baily Lighthouse on Howth Head with the loss of more than 80 lives.
12 May–31 October – Great Industrial Exhibition held in Dublin,{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.umd.edu/ARCH/honr219f/1853dubl.html/|title=Dublin 1853|publisher=lib.umd.edu|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080827221350/http://www.lib.umd.edu/ARCH/honr219f/1853dubl.html|archive-date=2008-08-27}} promoted by William Dargan. Queen Victoria, accompanied by the Prince Consort and the Prince of Wales, pays an official visit on 29 August. John Hutton & Son of Dublin exhibit the Irish State Coach.

30 January – Leland Hone, cricketer (died 1896).
6 February – Robert John McConnell, businessman, baronet and Lord Mayor of Belfast (died 1927).
7 February – Egerton Bushe Coghill, painter (died 1921).
30 March – Frank O'Meara, artist (died 1888).
March – John Doogan, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1881 at Laing's Nek, South Africa (died 1940).
10 April – Owen Hall, theatre writer and critic (died 1907).
3 July – Aloysius O'Kelly, painter (d. c1941).
July – Thomas Brennan, a founder and joint first secretary of the Irish National Land League (died 1912).

20 March – Robert James Graves, physician (born 1796).
14 April – Robert Baldwin Sullivan, lawyer, judge, and politician in Canada, second Mayor of Toronto (born 1802).
21 September – Timothy Burns, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin from 1851 to 1853 (born 1820).
28 October – Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry, politician (born 1773).[http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101016163// Valentine Lawless – Oxford Biography Index entry]