1862 in Ireland

• 1 January – a formal partnership between Edward Harland and Gustav Wilhelm Wolff establishes the Belfast shipbuilders Harland and Wolff.{{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 book|author1=Moss, Michael|author2=Hume, John R.|title=Shipbuilders to the World: 125 years of Harland and Wolff, Belfast 1861–1986|year=1986|publisher=Blackstaff Press|location=Belfast|isbn=0-85640-343-1}}
• 12 May – the Ulster Hall, a concert hall in Belfast, is opened.{{cite web|first=Chris|last=Page|title=Revamped Ulster Hall unveiled|work=BBC News Online|date=2009-03-06|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7927362.stm|access-date=2012-03-20}}
• July – the Glasgow & Stranraer Steam Packet Company's {{PS|Briton}} enters service on the first Stranraer to Larne ferry service.{{cite web|url=http://www.portoflarne.co.uk/about-us/history/|title=History|publisher=Port of Larne|access-date=2014-04-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190310020107/http://www.portoflarne.co.uk/about-us/history|archive-date=2019-03-10|url-status=dead}}
• 10 September – Eliza Lynch becomes de facto First Lady of Paraguay.
• 3 December – the Midland Great Western Railway extends from Longford to Sligo.{{cite news|title=1862 – the year Sligo's first train rolled into town|url=http://www.sligochampion.ie/lifestyle/1862-the-year-sligos-first-train-rolled-into-town-3314890.html|newspaper=The Sligo Champion|date=2012-11-27|access-date=2013-01-03}}
• ;Undated
• :*The Dublin Fire Brigade is established under the Dublin Corporation Fire Brigades Act.
• :*Publication of The Leadbeater Papers, containing the first edition of the Annals of Ballitore by Mary Leadbeater (died 1826).

• Julia Kavanagh publishes French Women of Letters.
• Charles Lever publishes the novel Barrington serially.

• 2 April – Bryan Mahon, British Army general, Commander-in-Chief, Ireland and Senator (died 1930).
• 27 May – John Edward Campbell, mathematician (died 1924 in Oxford).
• 10 June – John de Robeck, admiral in the British Navy (died 1928).
• 11 June – Violet Florence Martin, author (died 1915).
• 14 June – John J. Glennon, Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Louis and Cardinal (died 1946).
• 21 September – Sir Thomas Esmonde, 11th Baronet, peer, MP and Seanad member (died 1935).
• 14 October – Samuel Cunningham, politician and Irish Privy Councillor (died 1946).
• 6 November – Edward Bulfin, British general during World War I (died 1939).
• 15 December – Jack (Nonpareil) Dempsey, boxer (died 1896).
• Gertrude Kelly, surgeon and radical activist in New York (died 1934 in the United States).

• 6 April – Fitz James O'Brien, author (born 1828).
• 21 May – John Drew, actor (born 1827).
• 18 July – John George de la Poer Beresford, Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland) (born 1773).
• 30 July – Eugene O'Curry, scholar (born 1794).
• 30 November – James Sheridan Knowles, dramatist and actor (born 1784).

• 1862 in Scotland
• 1862 in Wales

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