1806 in Ireland

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
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See also:	1806 in the United Kingdom; Other events of 1806 ; List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1806 in Ireland.

Events

10 April – Sir Arthur Wellesley marries Kitty Pakenham, daughter of the Earl of Longford, in the temporary St. George's Church built on Whitworth Road in Dublin.^[1]^[2]
American engraver Henry Pelham, agent for Lord Lansdowne's Irish estates, is drowned from a boat while superintending the erection of a martello tower in the Kenmare River.

John Wilson Croker (anonymously) publishes his mock-heroic verse satire on Dublin socio-political life The Amazoniad; or, Figure and Fashion.^[3]
Sydney Owenson publishes her epistolary novel The Wild Irish Girl: a National Tale.
Samuel Thomson publishes his third volume of verse Simple Poems on a Few Subjects.
The English architect George Papworth moves to Dublin.

21 January – William Quarter, first Roman Catholic bishop of Chicago (died 1848).
25 January – Daniel Maclise, painter (died 1870).
10 May - James Shields, Irish American politician and United States Army officer (died 1879 in the United States)
31 May – Patrick Leahy, Archbishop of Cashel (died 1875).
25 July – John O'Donovan, scholar and first historic topographer (died 1861).
1 August – Edward Crofton, 2nd Baron Crofton, Conservative politician (died 1869).
17 August – Peter Richard Kenrick, first Catholic archbishop west of the Mississippi River (died 1896).
20 August – Archibald Acheson, 3rd Earl of Gosford, Member of Parliament for Armagh (died 1864).
31 August – Charles Lever, novelist (died 1872).
September – Samuel Davidson, biblical scholar (died 1898).
15 October – William Clements, 3rd Earl of Leitrim, nobleman and landowner (died 1878).
3 November – Robert Molesworth, judge in Australia (died 1890).
4 December – John T. Graves, mathematician (died 1870).
Full date unknown
- Simon Byrne, prize-fighter (died 1833).

22 February – James Barry, painter (born 1741).
31 May – George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, statesman, colonial administrator and diplomat (born 1737).
9 September – William Paterson, jurist in the United States (born 1745).
18 September – Patrick Cotter O'Brien, known as the Bristol Giant and the Irish Giant (born 1760).

^ Richard, Holmes (2002). Wellington: The Iron Duke. London: HarperCollins. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-00-713750-3.
^ "St. George's church re-opened". The Irish Times. 1961-12-14. p. 9.
^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.