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Events in Ireland in 1863
Events from the year 1863 in Ireland.
- 1 February –
George Carew, 4th Baron Carew (died
1926).
- February –
George J. Gaskin, "silver-voiced Irish tenor" (died
1920 in the United States)
- 11 March –
May Guinness, painter (died 1955).
- 17 March –
P. H. McCarthy, labour leader and mayor of
San Francisco (died
1933).
- 31 March –
Sir Ion Hamilton Benn, 1st Baronet, businessman and British politician (died
1961).
- 2 April –
Mabel Cahill, tennis player.
- 9 April –
Henry De Vere Stacpoole, ship's doctor and author (died
1951).
- 12 August –
Margaretta Eagar, nurse for the four daughters of
Tsar Nicholas II and
Tsarina Alexandra and memoirist (died
1936).
- 25 August –
Eugene O'Growney, priest and scholar (died
1899).
- 7 September –
Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville,
Royal Navy
hydrographic surveyor, murdered by
Irish Republican Army (died
1936).
- 26 September –
Caesar Litton Falkiner,
Irish Unionist Party politician,
barrister, writer and historian (died
1908).
- 24 November –
Frederick Thomas Trouton,
physicist responsible for
Trouton's Rule (died
1922).
- Full date unknown –
F. Elrington Ball, author and legal historian (died
1928).
- 1 January –
Ambrose Madden, recipient of the
Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1854 in the
Crimea, at
Little Inkerman (born
1806).
- 16 February –
Denis Dynon, soldier, recipient of the
Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at
Chota Behar,
India (born
1822).
- 21 February –
Samuel Hill, soldier, recipient of the
Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at
Lucknow,
India, later killed in action (born
1826).
- 7 July –
William Mulready, painter (born
1786).
- 8 July –
Francis Kenrick, headed the
Diocese of Philadelphia, then was
Archbishop of Baltimore (born
1796).
- 24 July –
Thomas Arthur Bellew, landowner and politician (born
1820).
- 17 October –
John Dunlay, recipient of the
Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at
Lucknow,
India (born
1831).
- 10 December –
James FitzGibbon,
British soldier and hero of the
War of 1812 (born
1782).
- 10 December –
Charles C. Ingham, painter and founder of New York
National Academy of Design (born
1797).