1824 in Ireland

Events

*Foundation of the Northern Banking Company "- see Northern Bank)."

Births

*23 April - William Nash, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Lucknow, India (d.1875).
*28 May - Thomas Croke, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel and Emly, founder patron of the Gaelic Athletic Association (d.1902).
*26 June - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, mathematical physicist, engineer, and leader in the physical sciences (d.1907).
*August - Thomas Laughnan, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (d.1864).
*12 December - William Joseph Corbet, nationalist politician and MP (d.1909).

Full date unknown

*John Coghlan, public works engineer in Argentina (d.1890).
*Thomas Henry FitzGerald, farmer and politician in Queensland, Australia (d.1888).
*Patrick Green, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India (d.1889).
*John O'Hart, genealogist (d.1902).
*Charles Irwin, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (d.1873).
*James Stephens, founding member of the Fenian Brotherhood movement (d.1901).
*Edward Whelan, politician, one of the Fathers of the Canadian Confederation (d.1867).

Deaths

*21 January - Charles MacCarthy, soldier in the French, Dutch and British armies, governor of various British territories in West Africa (b.1764).
*24 August - Valentine Quin, 1st Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer (b.1752).
*30 October - Charles Maturin, clergyman, novelist and playwright (b.1782).
*9 November - Richard Annesley, 2nd Earl Annesley, politician (b.1745).
*19 November - Bishop James Murphy, Bishop of Clogher 1801-1824 (b.1744).
*5 December - Thomas McCord, businessman and politician in Lower Canada (b.1750).