Events from the year 1833 in Ireland. Events 29 July – Nathaniel Sneyd is shot in the head by a madman on Westmoreland Street, Dublin. He dies from his injuries two days later. August – Mount Melleray Abbey in the Knockmealdown Mountains is founded, the first Cistercian foundation in Ireland in modern times. 10 August – major fire in stores of The Custom House, Dublin, sets River Liffey aflame. 14 August – Church Temporalities Act 1833 suppresses ten bishoprics in the Church of Ireland, with dioceses to be merged as sees fall vacant, and provides for abolition of Vestry Assessment. 28 August – the school which will evolve into Castleknock College is opened in Dublin by the Vincentian community. Katherine Sophia Kane's The Irish Flora is published anonymously.
Arts and literature Early – Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, aged 14, makes his stage debut, at the Dublin Theatre, playing William Tell.
Births 21 January – Joseph Prosser, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sevastopol, Crimea (died 1869). 8 February – Launt Thompson, sculptor (died 1894). 4 May – Michael N. Nolan, U.S. Representative from New York, mayor of Albany (died 1905). 29 May – William Hare, 3rd Earl of Listowel, peer and Liberal politician (died 1924). 4 June – Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, soldier (died 1913). 17 July – Hugh Talbot Burgoyne, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 in the Sea of Azov, Crimea (died 1870). 3 November – William Knox Leet, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 at Inhlobana, Zululand, South Africa (died 1898). 7 November – William Temple, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1863 at Rangiriri, New Zealand (died 1919). Sir Theobald Hubert Burke, 13th Baronet (died 1909). Henry James O'Farrell, would-be assassin (executed 1868 in Australia).
Deaths 28 March – William Thompson, political and philosophical writer and social reformer (born 1775). 3 May – Nicholas Tuite MacCarthy, Jesuit preacher (born 1769). 31 July – Nathaniel Sneyd, politician, landowner and businessman.
In fiction Brian Friel's play Translations (premiered 1980) is set in County Donegal in 1833.
See also 1833 in Scotland 1833 in Wales
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