1805 in Ireland

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See also:	1805 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1805 List of years in Ireland

This is a list of events from the year 1805 in Ireland

Events

• August – rebel leader Michael Dwyer, held without sentence in Kilmainham Gaol, is transported to Sydney (Australia), where he lands as a free settler in February 1806.
• 21 October –
  Horatio Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain. Almost 4,000 of the 18,000 men on the British ships were born in Ireland.^[1]

• Mary Tighe's poem Psyche, or the Legend of Love

Births

• 2 January –
  United States Representative from Missouri (died 1892
  ).
• 5 April –
  Cork (died 1828
  ).
• 4 August – William Rowan Hamilton, mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (died 1865).

  Full date unknown

  • Jon Riley, deserter from United States Army, a founder of the San Patricios (died 1850
    ).
  • Anthony Coningham Sterling, British Army officer and historian (died 1871).
  • William Thompson, naturalist (died 1852).

Deaths

• 27 April – William Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty, politician and statesman (born 1741).
• 7 May –
  Whig statesman, Home Secretary in 1782 and Prime Minister 1782–1783 (born 1737
  ).
• 18 June – Arthur Murphy, editor and writer (born 1727).
• 27 July – Brian Merriman, Irish language poet and teacher (b. c. 1749).
• August – John Talbot Dillon, traveller and historical writer (b. c. 1740).
• 8 December – Rose ffrench, 1st Baroness ffrench.

See also

• 1805 in Scotland
• 1805 in Wales

References