1814 in Ireland

• 1 February – Royal Belfast Academical Institution opened as a school and college. • 18 June – improved navigation of River Shannon between Limerick and Killaloe opens. • 25 December – inauguration of Chapel Royal, Dublin, designed by Francis Johnston. • Apprentice Boys of Derry Club formed (although the siege of Derry has been celebrated from the 17th century). • William Shaw Mason's A Statistical Account or Parochial Survey of Ireland, drawn up from the communications of the clergy begins publication in Dublin. ==Arts and literature==

• 27 May – Harriet Smithson makes her stage debut at the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin, as Albina Mandeville in Frederick Reynolds's The Will. • Sydney, Lady Morgan, publishes her novel ''O'Donnell''. ==Births==

• 10 January – Aubrey Thomas de Vere, poet and critic (died 1902). • 9 May – John Brougham, actor and dramatist (died 1880). • 18 August – David Moriarty, Roman Catholic Bishop of Kerry (died 1877). • 28 August – Sheridan Le Fanu, writer (died 1873). • 3 September – Richard Graves MacDonnell, lawyer, judge and colonial governor (died 1881). • 14 October – Thomas Osborne Davis, lawyer and writer, author of the song "A Nation Once Again" (died 1845). • 3 December – William Fitzgerald, Church of Ireland Bishop of Killaloe (died 1883). • ;Full date unknown • :*Daniel Devlin, businessman and City Chamberlain in New York (died 1867). • :*John Lalor, journalist and author (died 1856). • :*Mary O'Connell, nurse during the American Civil War (died 1897). • :*Charles O'Hea, Catholic Priest, baptised Ned Kelly and ministered to him before he was hanged in 1880 (died 1903). • :*John Purcell, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India, later killed in action (died 1857). ==Deaths==

• 8 May (suicide) – William Nelson Gardiner, eccentric engraver and bookseller (born 1766). • 17 June – Henry Tresham, historical painter (born c.1751). • 9 July – Daniel Delany, Bishop of Kildare and Leighton, founder of two Catholic religious congregations and St Patrick's College, Carlow. • 10 August – George Ogle, politician (born 1742). • 21 November – Juan Mackenna, soldier of fortune (born 1771). • 9 December – Arturo O'Neill, soldier of fortune (born 1736). • 20 December – Robert Uniacke Fitzgerald, lawyer, soldier and politician (born 1751). • Geoffrey Font, centenarian (born 1709). ==See also==