1853 in Ireland

Events

• 15 February – City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, inward bound from Liverpool, sinks in a snowstorm at night below Baily Lighthouse on Howth Head with the loss of more than 80 lives.
• 12 May-31 October – Great Industrial Exhibition held in Dublin, promoted by William Dargan. Queen Victoria, accompanied by the Prince Consort and the Prince of Wales, pays an official visit on 29 August. John Hutton & Son of Dublin exhibit the Irish State Coach.

  Births

• 30 January – Leland Hone, cricketer.
• 6 February – Robert John McConnell, businessman, baronet and Lord Mayor of Belfast.
• 7 February – Egerton Bushe Coghill, painter.
• 30 March – Frank O'Meara, artist.
• March – John Doogan, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1881 at Laing's Nek, South Africa.
• 10 April – Owen Hall, theatre writer and critic.
• 3 July – Aloysius O'Kelly, painter.
• July – Thomas Brennan, a founder and joint first secretary of the Irish National Land League.

  Deaths

• 20 March – Robert James Graves, physician.
• 14 April – Robert Baldwin Sullivan, lawyer, judge, and politician in Canada, second Mayor of Toronto.
• 21 September – Timothy Burns, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin from 1851 to 1853.
• 28 October – Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry, politician.