1817 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 1817 in Ireland.

Events

26 May – completion of Royal Canal throughout from Dublin to the River Shannon at Tarmonbarry.^[1]
31 May – first stone of new pier at the port of Dunleary is laid.^[2]
16 June – Poor Law Employment Act empowers the Lord Lieutenant to appoint commissioners of public works to supervise construction of public works to relieve unemployment financed by mortgages of rates.^[2]
17 June – first stone of Wellington Testimonial, Dublin, is laid in Phoenix Park.^[2]
11 July – an act to provide for the establishment of asylums for the lunatic poor in Ireland.^[2]
c. July – tradesman Jeffery Sedwards establishes the Skibbereen Abstinence Society, considered the first organisation devoted to teetotalism in Europe.^[2]
7 August – first stone of Wellington Column is laid in Trim, County Meath.
30 September – national fever committee appointed to distribute government relief^[2] to victims of the typhus epidemic (October 1816 - December 1819).
Edward O'Reilly's Irish-English Dictionary is published.

19 April – Charles Wolfe's poem The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna is first published in the Newry Telegraph.^[2]
27 May – Thomas Moore's poem Lalla-Rookh: an Oriental romance is first published in London.^[2]
June – Maria Edgeworth's novel Ormond: a tale is first published in London^[2] together with Harrington.

6 January – J. J. McCarthy, architect (died 1882).
10 March – Patrick Neeson Lynch, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston (South Carolina) (died 1882 in the United States).
26 May – Denis Florence MacCarthy, poet, translator and biographer (died 1882).
3 June – Robert Warren, lawyer and politician (died 1897).
12 July – William Henry Gregory, politician and writer (died 1892).
26 August – John Willoughby Crawford, politician and third Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (died 1875 in Canada).
19 September – Charles Joseph Alleyn, lawyer and political figure in Quebec (died 1890 in Canada).
11 October – Walter Shanly, civil engineer, author, businessman and politician in Canada (died 1899 in Canada).
12 November – John T. Mills, lawyer and Supreme Court Justice for the Republic of Texas (died 1871 in the United States).
22 November – Sir William Ewart, 1st Baronet, manufacturer and politician (died 1889).
7 December – William Keogh, lawyer and politician (died 1878).
12 December – Patrick Talbot, British Army officer (died 1898)

23 May – John Prendergast Smyth, 1st Viscount Gort, politician (born 1742).
13 June – Richard Lovell Edgeworth, politician, writer and inventor (born 1744).
5 September – Charles Osborne, lawyer and politician (born 1759).
14 October – John Philpot Curran, orator and wit, lawyer and MP (born 1750).
13 November – John Keogh, merchant and political activist (born 1740).

Book: Delany, Ruth. A celebration of 250 years of Ireland's Inland Waterways. Belfast. Appletree Press. 1988. 0-86281-200-3. 103.
Book: Moody, T. W.. A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. 1989. 978-0-19-821744-2. 302. etal.