1808 in Ireland

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[edit] Events

• Bishop Daniel Delany, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, founded the Patrician Brothers.

[edit] Births

• 15 May - Michael William Balfe, composer (d.1870).
• Joseph Francis Olliffe, physician (d.1869).

[edit] Deaths

• 10 February - Hugh Douglas Hamilton, artist (b. c1734).
• 30 September - Peter Russell, gambler, government official, politician and judge in Upper Canada (b.1733).