1796 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1796 in Ireland.

• Monarch: George III

• 1 February – Wolfe Tone arrives in France.^[1]
• 12 July – first Orange Institution parades on The Twelfth held to commemorate the Battle of the Boyne (1690)^[2] in Portadown, Lurgan and Waringstown.^[3]
• 9 August – the convict ship Marquis Cornwallis leaves Cork for Australia.^[4]
• 2 December – Two passenger boats, the Camden and the Phelan go into service on the Royal Canal with a fare of 1s-1d (first class cabin) or 6d (second class cabin) from Dublin to Leixlip, a journey of approximately 20km.^[5] This contrasts with the stagecoach price at the time, which cost 8s-8d for the same journey.^[5]
• 10 December – the convict ship Britannia leaves Cork for Australia.^[4]
• 15 December – Expédition d'Irlande: French expedition (43 ships and 14,000 men) sails from Brest.
• 22 December – French fleet, with Wolfe Tone on board, arrives in Bantry Bay, but is unable to land due to contrary winds.^[1]
• Insurrection Act^[1] and Treason by Women Act passed.
• Yeomanry Corps formed.^[1]
• Building of the Four Courts in Dublin is substantially completed under the supervision of James Gandon.
• The still under-construction Royal Canal reaches the town of Kilcock and trade commences between it and Dublin.^[5]

• Edward Bunting's A General Collection of the Ancient Irish Music is published.

• 27 March – Robert James Graves, surgeon (died 1853).
• April – Abraham Brewster, judge and Lord Chancellor of Ireland (died 1874).
• 20 July – Maziere Brady, judge and Lord Chancellor of Ireland (died 1871).
• 16 August – Francis Crozier, British Royal Navy officer and polar explorer (lost after 1848).
• 4 October – Robert King, 4th Earl of Kingston, soldier and politician (died 1867).
• 27 November
  • John MacEnery, priest and pioneer archaeologist (died 1841).
  • Richard Mayne, barrister and joint first Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, head of the London Metropolitan Police (1829–1868) (died 1868).
• 3 December – Francis Kenrick, headed the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia, then was Archbishop of Baltimore (died 1863).

  Full date unknown

  • Michael Banim, writer (died 1874).
  • James Curley, astronomer (died 1889 in the United States).
  • George Crawford Hyndman, auctioneer and marine biologist (died 1867).
  • Eliza Hamilton Dunlop, poet (died 1880 in Australia).
  • Charles Cromwell Ingham, painter and founder of the New York National Academy of Design (died 1863 in the United States).
  • John Pitt Kennedy, British military engineer, agricultural reformer and civil servant (died 1879).
  • James McLevy, detective in Edinburgh (died 1875 in Scotland).
  • George Maguire, Mayor of St. Louis, Missouri (died 1882 in the United States).
  • Jones Quain, anatomist (died 1865).
  • Michael Joseph Quin, author, journalist and editor (died 1843).

• 23 May – John Roberts, architect. (born 1712/14)
• William Henn, judge (born c.1720).
• Bowen Southwell, landowner and politician (born 1713).