1807 in Ireland

Events

• March – Sir Arthur Wellesley is appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland.
• 18 May – exiled Irish rebel Michael Dwyer is acquitted of a charge of conspiring to mount an Irish insurrection against British rule in New South Wales, but subsequently stripped of his free settler status.
• 20 November – sinking of the Rochdale and the Prince of Wales: The British troopships Rochdale and Prince of Wales sink in a storm in Dublin Bay with the loss of around 400 lives.

  Arts and literature

• Actor Edmund Kean plays leading parts in the Belfast theatre with Sarah Siddons.

  Births

• 28 January – Robert McClure, Arctic explorer.
• 7 March – John McCaul, educator, theologian, and the second president of the University of Toronto.
• 10 March – James Fintan Lalor, revolutionary, journalist and writer.
• 9 September – Richard Chenevix Trench, né Richard Trench, Archbishop of Dublin .
• 27 September – John T. Mullock, Roman Catholic Bishop of St. John's, Newfoundland.
• 23 October – Baroness Tautphoeus, née Jemima Montgomery, novelist.
• 14 December – Francis Hincks, politician in Canada.
• ;Full date unknown
• :*Robert Cane, doctor, member of the Repeal Association and the Irish Confederation, Mayor of Kilkenny.
• :*Thomas Henry, police magistrate in London.

  Deaths

• 8 February – Dorcas Blackwood, 1st Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye.
• 5 June – Boyle Roche, politician.
• Nathaniel Grogan, painter.
• Elizabeth Sugrue, hangwoman