1836 in Ireland

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Decades: 1810s • 1820s • 1830s • 1840s • 1850s Centuries: 17th • 18th • 19th • 20th • 21st See also: 1836 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1836 List of years in Ireland

Events

• February, foundation of the Ulster Bank in Belfast
• Foundation of the Royal Bank of Ireland see Allied Irish Banks.
• August following one of the coldest summers in over fifty years there is widespread failure of the potato crop.

Births

• 17 January - William MacCormac, surgeon (d.1901).
• May - Thomas Lane, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1860 at the Taku Forts, China (d.1889).
• 10 October - Dalton McCarthy, lawyer and politician in Canada (d.1898).

Deaths

• 31 March - Edward Southwell Ruthven, Repealer politician and member of the United Kingdom Parliament (b. c. 1772)
• 8 August - James Blackwood, 2nd Baron Dufferin and Claneboye, politician (b.1755).
• 21 August - William Cusac Smith, Baronet, judge (b.1766)