1808 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1808 in Ireland.

Incumbent[]

• Monarch: George III

Events[]

• 2 February – Daniel Delany, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, founds the Patrician Brothers.
• 15 February – laying of the foundation stone for Nelson's Pillar in Dublin
• 6 June – the Bank of Ireland moves its premises to the former Irish Houses of Parliament on College Green, Dublin.
• 12 July – Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Wellesley embarks troops at Cork to join the Peninsular War in Portugal.^[1]
• 15 August – seven men, including Edmund Rice, take religious promises under , Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, as the Presentation Brothers.^[2]
• 22 August – the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St Mary and St Anne in Cork is dedicated.^[3]

Arts and literature[]

• Mary Leadbeater's Poems published.
• Rev. Charles Maturin's novel The Wild Irish Boy published under the pseudonym Dennis Jasper Murphy.
• Thomas Moore's A Selection of Irish Melodies (first two volumes) published.

Births[]

• 15 May – Michael William Balfe, composer (died 1870).
• Anne Elizabeth Ball, phycologist (died 1872).
• Joseph Francis Olliffe, physician (died 1869).

Deaths[]

• 10 February – Hugh Douglas Hamilton, artist (b. c1734).
• 30 September – Peter Russell, gambler, government official, politician and judge in Upper Canada (born 1733).

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