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Events from the year 1863 in Ireland.

Events

2 March – the Ulster Railway, which began construction in 1839, reaches Clones.
10 March – riots in Cork, related to nationalist unrest.^[1]
21 August – American clipper Anglo Saxon westbound is captured and burned by Confederate privateer Florida off Old Head of Kinsale.^[2]
28 November – first edition of The Irish People.^[3]

1 February – George Carew, 4th Baron Carew (died 1926).
February – George J. Gaskin, "silver-voiced Irish tenor" (died 1920 in the United States)
11 March – May Guinness, painter (died 1955).
17 March – P. H. McCarthy, labour leader and mayor of San Francisco (died 1933).
31 March – Sir Ion Hamilton Benn, 1st Baronet, businessman and British politician (died 1961).
2 April – Mabel Cahill, tennis player.
9 April – Henry De Vere Stacpoole, ship's doctor and author (died 1951).
12 August – Margaretta Eagar, nurse for the four daughters of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra and memoirist (died 1936).
25 August – Eugene O'Growney, priest and scholar (died 1899).
7 September – Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville, Royal Navy hydrographic surveyor, murdered by Irish Republican Army (died 1936).
26 September – Caesar Litton Falkiner, Irish Unionist Party politician, barrister, writer and historian (died 1908).
24 November – Frederick Thomas Trouton, physicist responsible for Trouton's Rule (died 1922).
Full date unknown – F. Elrington Ball, author and legal historian (died 1928).

1 January – Ambrose Madden, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1854 in the Crimea, at Little Inkerman (born 1806).
16 February – Denis Dynon, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Chota Behar, India (born 1822).
21 February – Samuel Hill, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India, later killed in action (born 1826).
7 July – William Mulready, painter (born 1786).
8 July – Francis Kenrick, headed the Diocese of Philadelphia, then was Archbishop of Baltimore (born 1796).
24 July – Thomas Arthur Bellew, landowner and politician (born 1820).
17 October – John Dunlay, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (born 1831).
10 December – James FitzGibbon, British soldier and hero of the War of 1812 (born 1782).
10 December – Charles C. Ingham, painter and founder of New York National Academy of Design (born 1797).

^ "The riot of Tuesday the 10th". The Tablet: 12. 21 March 1863. Archived from the original on 11 March 2014. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
^ Nolan, Daniel J. (2011). Clippers: the ships that shaped the world. Bray: Malbay Publishing. p. 97. ISBN 978-1-908726-00-1.
^ Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 377.