1831 in Ireland

Events

• The first statistics for religion in Ireland were gathered in this year's Census.

Births

• 22 January - Samuel Hill Lawrence, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (d.1868).
• 26 January - Hugh Annesley, 5th Earl Annesley, British military officer and MP (d.1908).
• 11 February - Henry Mitchell Jones, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, Crimea (d.1916).
• 1 August - George Richardson, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1859 at Kewane Trans-Gogra, India (d.1923).
• September - Peter Gill, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 in Benares, India (d.1868).
• September - Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, Fenian leader (d.1915).
• 28 November - John William Mackay, businessman in America (d.1902).
• 3 December - James Graham Fair, part-owner of the Comstock Lode, United States Senator and real estate and railroad speculator (d.1894).
• 17 December - William George Nicholas Manley, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1864 near Tauranga, New Zealand (d.1901).
• December - Richard Fitzgerald, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Bolandshahr, India (d.1884).

Full date unknown

• Daniel Connor, convict transported to Western Australia, businessman (d.1898).
• John Dunlay, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (d.1863).
• Frederick Falkiner, lawyer, judge and author (d.1908).

Deaths

• 30 January - William Hales, clergyman and scientific writer (b.1747).
• 8 December - James Hoban, architect, designed the White House in Washington, D.C. (b. c1762).

Full date unknown

• Alexander Macomb, Sr., merchant and land speculator with Macomb's Purchase in New York (b.1748).