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Events from the year1818 in Ireland.

• 6 January – opening ofGeneral Post Office (Dublin).
• 22 April–26 May –Select Committee of the House of Commons inquires into fever in Ireland.^[1]Typhus epidemic continues.
• Mid-May –Paddle steamerThames makes the firststeamboat passage from theClyde to Dublin.^[2]
• 30 May – Fever Hospitals Act.^[1]
• 13–14 June –Rob Roy makes the first steamboat passage from the Clyde toBelfast.^[1]
• Restoration ofDown Cathedral completed.
• TheIrish Society for Promoting the Education of the Native Irish through the Medium of Their Own Language is founded in Dublin by members of theChurch of Ireland, the main movers beingHenry Joseph Monck Mason and BishopRobert Daly.^[3]
• Highwayman andrappareeCaptain Gallagher surrenders to the authorities, is tried atFoxford and executed atCastlebar.

• Rev.Patrick Brontë's anonymous "modern tale"The Maid of Killarney is published in London.
• Sydney Owenson publishes herFlorence Macarthy: an Irish tale.
• William Blacker writes the song "The Crimson Banner", commemorating the 1689 siege of Derry.

• 28 January –Robert Carew, 2nd Baron Carew,politician (died1881).
• 4 March –Tobias Mullen, bishop of theRoman Catholic Diocese of Erie (died1900).
• 4 April –Thomas Mayne Reid, novelist (died1883).
• 25 April –Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, actor (lost at sea1866).
• April –Cecil Frances Humphreys Alexander, hymn-writer and poet (died1895).
• 24 May –J. H. Foley, sculptor (died1874).
• 19 June –Hugh Law, lawyer and politician (died1883).
• 21 June –Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet, art collector and MP (died1890).
• 20 August –John Ball, politician, naturalist and Alpine traveller (died1889).
• 11 October –Martin Crane, firstsuffragan bishop of theRoman Catholic Diocese of Sandhurst in Australia (died1901).
• 12 October –John Cuffe, 3rd Earl of Desart,Conservativepolitician (died1865).
• 28 November –John Lane,Ontario politician (died after 1879).
• December –Thomas Roberts Ferguson, Ontario businessman and politician (died1879).

  Full date unknown

  • Alexander Armstrong,naval surgeon, explorer and author (died1899).^[4]
  • Catherine Hayes,operadiva (died1861).
  • Samuel Kelly,coal merchant (died1877).
  • Thomas Kerr Lynch, explorer (died1891).
  • Andrew George Malcolm,physician (died1856).

• 27 January –John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn, politician (born1756).
• 29 January –Sackville Hamilton, politician (born1732).
• 31 January –Richard O'Reilly,Roman CatholicArchbishop of Armagh andPrimate of All Ireland (born1746).
• 4 August –Tom Molineaux, bare-knuckle heavyweight boxer (born1784 in the United States).
• 11 August – SirVere Hunt, politician (born1761).
• October –Joseph Atkinson, dramatist (born1743).
• 26 October –William Elliot, politician (born1766).
• 23 December – SirPhilip Francis, politician and pamphleteer (born1740).

  Full date unknown

  • Riocard Bairéad, poet andUnited Irishman (possible date) (born c.1740).
  • Timothy Murphy,sniper in American Revolutionary War (born1751).

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