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Events from the year1812 in Ireland.

• 1 October –English balloonistJames Sadler starts a balloon flight fromBelvedere House nearMullingar in an attempt to cross theIrish Sea. He fails and almost drowns as a result.
• October – a storm washes away temporary barracks erected onTuskar Rock for lighthouse construction, killing 14 workmen.
• Robert Peel,Chief Secretary for Ireland, introduces a mobile constabulary in Ireland, intended to be less partial than theyeomanry stationed inUlster at this time, who are nearly allOrangemen.^[1]
• LandownerJohn D'Arcy is granted a patent to hold a market at his new town ofClifden.

• 14 May –Charles William Russell,Roman Catholic clergyman andscholar (died1880).
• 19 May –Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer (died1871).
• 29 May –Thomas O'Hagan, 1st Baron O'Hagan,Lord Chancellor of Ireland (died1885).
• 5 July –Frederick Edward Maning, writer and judge inNew Zealand (died1883).
• 12 July –C. P. Meehan, priest, poet and writer (died1890).
• 4 November –James Alipius Goold,Roman CatholicBishop andArchbishop ofMelbourne (died1886).

  Full date unknown

  • George Allman, naturalist, professor of natural history inEdinburgh (died1898).
  • John Benson architect forIrish Industrial Exhibition,Great Industrial Exhibition (1853) and the 1855Cork Opera House (died1874)

• 25 April –Edmond Malone, Shakespeare scholar and literary critic (born1741).
• 22 June –Richard Kirwan, scientist (born1733).
• 2 August –Edward Smyth, sculptor (born1749).
• 27 August –John Blaquiere, 1st Baron de Blaquiere, soldier and politician (born1732).

  Full date unknown

  • Robert Owenson, actor and author (born1744).

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