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See also:	1846 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1846 List of years in Ireland

Events from the year1846 in Ireland.

• Ongoing –Great Hunger: The first deaths from hunger take place early in the year.^[1]Phytophthora infestans almost totally destroys the summer potato crop and the Famine worsens considerably.^[2] By December a third of a million destitute people are employed on public works.^[2]
• 13 March –Ballinlass incident: eviction of 300 tenants at the village of Ballinlass inCounty Galway.
• 22 September – theGreat Western Steamship Company'sSS Great Britain, bound fromLiverpool forNew York, runs aground inDundrum Bay (County Down). She lies here for almost a year, protected by temporary measures organised by her designer,I. K. Brunel.^[3]
• Maziere Brady succeedsSir Edward Sugden asLord Chancellor of Ireland, an office which he will hold (with short intervals) until1866.^[4]
• HM Prison Crumlin Road inBelfast is opened with the arrival of the first inmates, who are forced to walk fromCarrickfergus Prison in chains.
• The first substantialEnglish translation of theAnnals of the Four Masters, made byOwen Connellan, is published.
• The Anglo-Celt newspaper begins weekly publication inCavan.
• HistorianRuaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh (Roderic O'Flaherty)'sChorographical description of West or Iar Connacht (1684) is first published.^[5]

• 10 February –Lord Charles Beresford, British admiral (died1919)
• 13 February –John O'Connor Power,Irish Nationalist politician andMember of Parliament (died1919).
• 25 March –Michael Davitt,republican,nationalist agrarian agitator,social campaigner,labour leader andIrish National Land League founder (died1906).
• 27 June –Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish nationalist leader (died1891).
• 30 June –Frances Margaret Milne, author and librarian (died1910 in the United States).
• 22 July –Alfred Perceval Graves, writer (died1931).
• 13 August –Otto Jaffe, twice elected asIrish Unionist PartyLord Mayor of Belfast (died1929).
• 10 September –John F. Finerty,U.S. Representative fromIllinois (died1908).
• 18 September –Standish James O'Grady, author, journalist and historian (died1928).
• 23 August –Sir Henry Bellingham, 4th Baronet, politician and barrister (died1921).
• 9 October –Frank Hugh O'Donnell, writer and nationalist politician (died1916).
• 18 November –Samuel Cleland Davidson, inventor and engineer (died1921)

• 3 April –Zozimus (Michael J. Moran), comic poet (b. c. 1794)
• 12 October –Lawrence Kavenagh, bushranger (b. c. 1805)
• exact date unknown –George Darley, poet, novelist and critic (born1795).

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