1862 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1862 in Ireland.

Events

• 1 January - A formal partnership between Edward Harland and Gustav Wilhelm Wolff establishes the Belfast shipbuilders Harland and Wolff.
• 12 May - The Ulster Hall, a concert hall in Belfast, is opened.
• July - The Glasgow & Stranraer Steam Packet Company's PS Briton enters service on the first Stranraer to Larne ferry service.
• 10 September - Eliza Lynch becomes de facto First Lady of Paraguay.
• 3 December - The Midland Great Western Railway extends from Longford to Sligo.
• Undated - The Dublin Fire Brigade is established under the Dublin Corporation Fire Brigades Act.

Arts and literature

• Julia Kavanagh publishes French Women of Letters.
• Charles Lever publishes the novel Barrington serially.

Births

• 10 June - John de Robeck, admiral in the British Navy (died 1928).
• 11 June - Violet Florence Martin, author (died 1915).
• 14 June - John J. Glennon, Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Louis and Cardinal (died 1946).
• 21 September - Sir Thomas Esmonde, 11th Baronet, peer, MP and Seanad member (died 1935).
• 14 October - Samuel Cunningham, politician and Irish Privy Councillor (died 1946).
• 6 November - Edward Bulfin, British general during World War I (died 1939).
• 15 December - Jack (Nonpareil) Dempsey, boxer (died 1896).

Full date unknown

• Bryan Mahon, British Army general, Commander-in-Chief, Ireland and Senator (died 1930).

Deaths

• 6 April - Fitz James O'Brien, author (born 1828).
• 21 May - John Drew, actor (born 1827).
• 18 July - John George de la Poer Beresford, Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland) (born 1773).
• 30 July - Eugene O'Curry, scholar (born 1794).
• 30 November - James Sheridan Knowles, dramatist and actor (born 1784).