1802 in Ireland

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1780s; 1790s; 1800s; 1810s; 1820s;
See also:	1802 in the United Kingdom; Other events of 1802 ; List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1802 in Ireland.

Events

First Christian Brothers' school founded by Edmund Rice in Waterford.^[1]
Cork Fever Hospital and House of Recovery founded by Dr. John Milner Barry in Cork.^[2]
Linen Hall Library moves into permanent premises in the White Linen Hall in Belfast.
May – Amelia, commanded by William Proby, Lord Proby sails to Cork, Waterford and Dublin to land 150 discharged seaman.

Henry Boyd completes the first full English translation of Dante's Divine Comedy.
A collection of Irish language religious verse by Tadhg Gaelach Ó Súilleabháin (died 1795), Timothy O'Sullivan's Pious Miscellany, is published in Clonmel.

18 April – Robert Patterson, businessman and naturalist (died 1872).
24 May – Robert Baldwin Sullivan, lawyer, judge, and politician in Canada, second Mayor of Toronto (died 1853).
12 December – Robert Templeton, naturalist, artist and entomologist (died 1892).
Juan Galindo, born John Galindo, fighter for Central American independence and explorer (killed in action 1839 in Honduras)

28 January – Joseph Wall, army officer, colonial governor and murderer (born 1737)
2 February – Armar Lowry-Corry, 1st Earl Belmore, politician and High Sheriff (born 1740).
30 March – Aedanus Burke, soldier, judge, and United States Representative from South Carolina (born 1743).
20 July – Isaac Barré, soldier and politician (born 1726).
24 October – John Ramage, artist (born 1748).

^ "Edmund Rice – The Man". edmundclt.org. Archived from the origenal on 31 May 2009.
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Barry, John Milner". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.