1828 in Ireland

Events

• In the election in County Clare, Daniel O'Connell wins the seat, with the Catholic Association.
• Belfast Botanic Gardens opens as the private Royal Belfast Botanical Gardens.

  Births

• 1 January – Richard Phelan, fourth Roman Catholic Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• 17 January – Eyre Massey Shaw, first Chief Officer of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade .
• 28 January – William Gorman Wills, dramatist and painter.
• 21 March – William Davis Ardagh, lawyer, judge and politician in Canada.
• March – Patrick Cleburne, major general in Confederate States Army in the American Civil War.
• 23 April – Fenton John Anthony Hort, theologian and writer.
• 28 April – Wingfield W. Watson, leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints .
• 9 May – Charles Kickham, Irish revolutionary, novelist, poet, journalist.
• 11 May – William Walsh, U.S. Congressman in Maryland.
• 15 June – Thomas Newenham Deane, architect.
• 27 June
• *Cornelius Coughlan, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India.
• *Bryan O'Loghlen, politician in Australia, 13th Premier of Victoria.
• 26 August – William Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin.
• 22 September – Canon James Goodman, Irish music collector.
• 22 November – Lydia Shackleton, botanical artist.
• 27 November – Samuel Mullen, bookseller.
• 31 December – Fitz James O'Brien, author.
• ;Full date unknown
• :*John Holmes, surveyor and politician in Ontario.
• :*Joshua Spencer Thompson, Liberal-Conservative politician in Canada.

  Deaths

• 9 January – Alexander Arbuthnot, Church of Ireland Bishop of Killaloe.
• 29 June – Samuel Forde, painter from Cork.
• 23 August – John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel, politician and Irish Chancellor of the Exchequer.