1795 in Ireland

Events

• 5 June - The Royal College of St Patrick established at Maynooth by Act of Grattan's Parliament to provide university-level education for Roman Catholic ecclesiastical and lay students.
• 21 September
• Battle of the Diamond, a violent confrontation between the Catholic Defenders and Protestants including Peep o' Day Boys, Orange Boys and local tenant farmers, takes place near Loughgall, County Armagh.
• The Loyal Orange Institution (Orange Order) is formed in County Armagh following the Battle of the Diamond.
• Society of the United Irishmen members including Theobald Wolfe Tone and Henry Joy McCracken meet at Cavehill to the north of Belfast.
• The town of Louisburgh, County Mayo, is established by Lord Altamount of Westport to house Catholic refugees who fled sectarian conflict in the north of Ireland.
• National Botanic Gardens opened by the Royal Dublin Society.

Births

• 5 May - James Haughton, social reformer and temperance activist (d.1873).
• 20 May - Francis Murphy, first Roman Catholic bishop of Adelaide, South Australia (d.1858).
• 18 July - Hugh McNeile, Anglican churchman (d.1879).
• 16 November - Lord Kingsborough, antiquarian...
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