1837 in Ireland

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Decades: 1810s • 1820s • 1830s • 1840s • 1850s Centuries: 17th • 18th • 19th • 20th • 21st See also: 1837 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1837 List of years in Ireland

Events

• Shaw's Bank merges with the Royal Bank of Ireland (later to become one of the Allied Irish Banks).
• August - Following a very cold summer there is widespread failure of the potato crop, as in 1836, leading to famine later in the year.

Births

• 7 May - John Michael Clancy, Democrat United States Representative from New York (d.1903).
• 24 May - John McDonald, soldier and Congressman in America (d.1917).
• 28 May - George Ashlin, architect (d.1921).
• 4 September - Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne, lawyer and Lord Chancellor of Ireland (d.1913).
• 1 October - Edward James Saunderson, leader of the Irish Unionist Party in the British House of Commons (d.1906).

Full date unknown

• James Brenan, artist (d.1907).
• Patrick Graham, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (d.1875).

Deaths

• 20 January - Arthur Gore, 3rd Earl of Arran, politician (b.1761).
• 23 January - John Field, composer and pianist (b.1782).
• 1 February - Edward Donovan, writer, traveller and amateur zoologist (b.1768).
• 27 February - Lord Kingsborough, antiquarian (b.1795).
• 20 June - William IV of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (b. 1765).
• 13 July - William Hare, 1st Earl of Listowel, peer and MP (b.1751).
• 24 November - Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty, diplomat, Irish, and later British, MP (b.1767).

Full date unknown

• Gilbert Austin, educator, clergyman and author (b.1753).