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Events from the year1831 in Ireland.

• January – agrarian unrest breaks out in countiesClare andLimerick.
• February – at a public meeting inMaryborough, Queen's County, farmerPatrick "Patt" Lalor declares that he will no longer paytithes.^[1]
• 3 March – the first clash of theTithe War takes place atGraiguenamanagh,County Kilkenny, when a force of 120yeomanry tries to enforce seizure orders on cattle belonging to aRoman Catholic priest.
• 30 May – the first statistics for religion in Ireland are gathered in this year's Census. Around 80% of the population is Roman Catholic, 11% belong to theChurch of Ireland and 8% (almost all inUlster) arePresbyterian.^[2]
• 1 September –Zoological Gardens, Dublin, open.^[3][4]
• Autumn – firstCatholic mass said in the newBallina Cathedral.
• 15 October –Board of Works formed as a department of state by merger of theOffice of the Surveyor-General for Ireland, the Barracks Board, and the Navigation Board.^[5]
• 23 October –George Joseph Plunket Browne is consecrated as first Bishop of the newRoman Catholic Diocese of Galway, created by theHoly See following abolition of theWardenship of Galway (Edmund Ffrench being the last Warden).
• 7 November –Ralahine commune established atNewmarket-on-Fergus, County Clare.
• 14 December – theCarrickshock incident: Forty policemen confront a mob of over 2,000 in Carrickshock,County Kilkenny, protesting against the collection oftithes. Sixteen policemen are killed and seven wounded in the clash.^[6]
• Sisters of Mercy established inDublin byCatherine McAuley.
• First of a series of annual meetings onprophecy atPowerscourt House which give rise to thePlymouth Brethren.
• Stanley letter is written

• African American actorIra Aldridge tours Ireland.
• James Hardiman'sIrish Minstrelsy, or Bardic remains of Ireland with English poetical translations published.

• 22 January –Samuel Hill Lawrence, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 atLucknow, India (died1868).
• 26 January –Hugh Annesley, 5th Earl Annesley, British militaryofficer andMP (died1908).
• 11 February –Henry Mitchell Jones, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 atSebastopol,Crimea (died1916).
• 1 August –George Richardson, soldier, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1859 atKewane Trans-Gogra, India (died1923).
• September
  • Peter Gill, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 inBenares, India (died1868).
  • Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa,Fenian leader (died1915).
• 18 November –Albert Grant, born Abraham Gottheimer, dubious company promoter (died1899)
• 28 November –John William Mackay, businessman in America (died1902).
• 3 December –James Graham Fair, part-owner of theComstock Lode,United States Senator and real estate and railroad speculator (died1894).
• 17 December –William George Nicholas Manley, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1864 nearTauranga, New Zealand (died1901).
• December –Richard Fitzgerald, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 atBolandshahr, India (died1884).

  Full date unknown

  • Daniel Connor,convicttransported toWestern Australia, businessman (died1898).
  • John Dunlay, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 atLucknow, India (died1863).
  • Frederick Falkiner, lawyer, judge and author (died1908).

• 30 January –William Hales, clergyman and scientific writer (born1747).
• 8 December –James Hoban, architect, designed theWhite House inWashington, D.C. (b. c1762).

  Full date unknown

  • Alexander Macomb, Sr., merchant and land speculator withMacomb's Purchase inNew York (born1748).

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