1863 in Ireland

Events from the year 1863 in Ireland.

Events

2 March – the Ulster Railway, which began construction in 1839, reaches Clones.
10 March – riots in Cork, related to nationalist unrest.{{cite journal|journal=The Tablet|page=12|date=21 March 1863|url=http://archive.thetablet.co.uk/article/21st-march-1863/12/the-riot-of-tuesday-the-10th|title=The riot of Tuesday the 10th|access-date=11 March 2014|archive-date=11 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140311181347/http://archive.thetablet.co.uk/article/21st-march-1863/12/the-riot-of-tuesday-the-10th|url-status=dead}}
21 August – American clipper Anglo Saxon westbound is captured and burned by Confederate privateer Florida off Old Head of Kinsale.{{cite book|first=Daniel J.|last=Nolan|title=Clippers: the ships that shaped the world|publisher=Malbay Publishing|year=2011|location=Bray|isbn=978-1-908726-00-1|page=97}}
28 November – first edition of The Irish People.{{cite book|editor1=Moody, T. W. |editor2=Martin, F. X. |year=1967|title=The Course of Irish History|publisher=Mercier Press|location=Cork|page=377}}

1 February – George Carew, 4th Baron Carew (died 1926).
February – George J. Gaskin, "silver-voiced Irish tenor" (died 1920 in the United States)
11 March – May Guinness, painter (died 1955).
17 March – P. H. McCarthy, labour leader and mayor of San Francisco (died 1933).
31 March – Sir Ion Hamilton Benn, 1st Baronet, businessman and British politician (died 1961).
2 April – Mabel Cahill, tennis player.
9 April – Henry De Vere Stacpoole, ship's doctor and author (died 1951).
12 August – Margaretta Eagar, nurse for the four daughters of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra and memoirist (died 1936).
25 August – Eugene O'Growney, priest and scholar (died 1899).
7 September – Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville, Royal Navy hydrographic surveyor, murdered by Irish Republican Army (died 1936).
26 September – Caesar Litton Falkiner, Irish Unionist Party politician, barrister, writer and historian (died 1908).
24 November – Frederick Thomas Trouton, physicist responsible for Trouton's Rule (died 1922).
Full date unknown – F. Elrington Ball, author and legal historian (died 1928).

1 January – Ambrose Madden, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1854 in the Crimea, at Little Inkerman (born 1806).
16 February – Denis Dynon, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Chota Behar, India (born 1822).
21 February – Samuel Hill, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India, later killed in action (born 1826).
7 July – William Mulready, painter (born 1786).
8 July – Francis Kenrick, headed the Diocese of Philadelphia, then was Archbishop of Baltimore (born 1796).
24 July – Thomas Arthur Bellew, landowner and politician (born 1820).
17 October – John Dunlay, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (born 1831).
10 December – James FitzGibbon, British soldier and hero of the War of 1812 (born 1782).
10 December – Charles C. Ingham, painter and founder of New York National Academy of Design (born 1797).