1814 in Ireland

Events

• 1 February – Royal Belfast Academical Institution opened as a school and college.
• 18 June – improved navigation of River Shannon between Limerick and Killaloe opens.
• 25 December – inauguration of Chapel Royal, Dublin, designed by Francis Johnston.
• Apprentice Boys of Derry Club formed.
• William Shaw Mason's A Statistical Account or Parochial Survey of Ireland, drawn up from the communications of the clergy begins publication in Dublin.

  Arts and literature

• 27 May – Harriet Smithson makes her stage debut at the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin, as Albina Mandeville in Frederick Reynolds's The Will.
• Sydney, Lady Morgan, publishes her novel O'Donnell.

  Births

• 10 January – Aubrey Thomas de Vere, poet and critic.
• 9 May – John Brougham, actor and dramatist.
• 28 August – Sheridan Le Fanu, writer.
• 3 September – Richard Graves MacDonnell, lawyer, judge and colonial governor.
• 14 October – Thomas Osborne Davis, lawyer and writer, author of the song "A Nation Once Again".
• 3 December – William Fitzgerald, Church of Ireland Bishop of Killaloe.
• ;Full date unknown
• :*Daniel Devlin, businessman and City Chamberlain in New York.
• :*John Lalor, journalist and author.
• :*Mary O'Connell, nurse during the American Civil War.
• :*Charles O'Hea, Catholic Priest, baptised Ned Kelly and ministered to him before he was hanged in 1880.
• :*John Purcell, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India, later killed in action.

  Deaths

• 8 May – William Nelson Gardiner, eccentric engraver and bookseller.
• 17 June – Henry Tresham, historical painter.
• 9 July – Daniel Delany, Bishop of Kildare and Leighton, founder of two Catholic religious congregations and St Patrick's College, Carlow.
• 10 August – George Ogle, politician.
• 21 November – Juan Mackenna, soldier of fortune.
• 9 December – Arturo O'Neill, soldier of fortune.
• 20 December – Robert Uniacke Fitzgerald, lawyer, soldier and politician.
• Geoffrey Font, centenarian.