1805 in Ireland

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Events

August - Rebel leader Michael Dwyer, held without sentence in Kilmainham Gaol, is transported to Sydney (Australia), where he lands as a free settler in February 1806.
21 October - Battle of Trafalgar: A British Royal Navy fleet led by Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain. Almost 4,000 of the 18,000 men on the British ships were born in Ireland.^[1]

2 January - John Hogan, businessman and United States Representative from Missouri (died 1892).
5 April - Samuel Forde, painter from Cork (died 1828).
4 August - William Rowan Hamilton, mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (died 1865).

27 April - William Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty, politician and statesman (born 1741).
7 May - William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, British Whig statesman, Home Secretary in 1782 and Prime Minister 1782-1783 (born 1737).
18 June - Arthur Murphy, editor and writer (born 1727).
27 July - Brian Merriman, Irish language poet and teacher (b. c. 1749).
August - John Talbot Dillon, traveller and historical writer (b. c. 1740).
8 December - Rose ffrench, 1st Baroness ffrench.

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