1806 in Ireland

Events

Births

*21 January - William Quarter, first Roman Catholic bishop of Chicago (d.1848).
*25 July - John O'Donovan, scholar and first historic topographer (d.1861).
*1 August - Edward Crofton, 2nd Baron Crofton, Conservative politician (d.1869).
*17 August - Peter Richard Kenrick, first Catholic archbishop west of the Mississippi River (d.1896).
*20 August - Archibald Acheson, 3rd Earl of Gosford, Member of Parliament for Armagh (d.1864).
*31 August - Charles Lever, novelist (d.1872).
*15 October - William Clements, 3rd Earl of Leitrim, nobleman and landowner (d.1878).
*3 November - Robert Molesworth, judge in Australia (d.1890).

Full date unknown

*Henry Archer, barrister (d.1863).
*Simon Byrne, prize-fighter (d.1833).
*John T. Graves, mathematician (d.1870).
*Patrick Leahy, bishop (d.1875).
*Daniel Maclise, painter (d.1870).

Deaths

*22 February - James Barry, painter (b.1741).
*31 May - George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, statesman, colonial administrator and diplomat (b.1737).
*9 September - William Paterson, jurist in the United States (b.1745).
*18 September - Patrick Cotter O'Brien, known as the "Bristol Giant" and the "Irish Giant" (b.1760).