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See also:	1853 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1853 List of years in Ireland

Events from the year1853 in Ireland.

• 15 February –City of Dublin Steam Packet CompanyPS Queen Victoria (1838), inward bound from Liverpool, sinks in a snowstorm at night belowBaily Lighthouse onHowth Head with the loss of more than 80 lives.
• 12 May–31 October –Great Industrial Exhibition held inDublin,^[1] promoted byWilliam Dargan.Queen Victoria, accompanied by thePrince Consort and thePrince of Wales, pays an official visit on 29 August. John Hutton & Son of Dublin exhibit theIrish State Coach.

• 30 January –Leland Hone, cricketer (died1896).
• 6 February –Robert John McConnell, businessman,baronet andLord Mayor of Belfast (died1927).
• 7 February –Egerton Bushe Coghill, painter (died1921).
• 30 March –Frank O'Meara, artist (died1888).
• March –John Doogan, soldier, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1881 atLaing's Nek, South Africa (died1940).
• 10 April –Owen Hall, theatre writer and critic (died1907).
• 3 July –Aloysius O'Kelly, painter (d. c1941).
• July –Thomas Brennan, a founder and joint first secretary of theIrish National Land League (died1912).

• 20 March –Robert James Graves,physician (born1796).
• 14 April –Robert Baldwin Sullivan, lawyer, judge, and politician in Canada, secondMayor of Toronto (born1802).
• 21 September –Timothy Burns,Lieutenant Governor ofWisconsin from 1851 to 1853 (born1820).
• 28 October –Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry, politician (born1773).^[2]

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