Events from the year 1862 in Ireland.
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- 2 April – Bryan Mahon, British Army general, Commander-in-Chief, Ireland and Senator (died 1930).
- 27 May – John Edward Campbell, mathematician (died 1924 in Oxford).
- 10 June – John de Robeck, admiral in the British Navy (died 1928).
- 11 June – Violet Florence Martin, author (died 1915).
- 14 June – John J. Glennon, Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Louis and Cardinal (died 1946).
- 21 September – Sir Thomas Esmonde, 11th Baronet, peer, MP and Seanad member (died 1935).
- 14 October – Samuel Cunningham, politician and Irish Privy Councillor (died 1946).
- 6 November – Edward Bulfin, British general during World War I (died 1939).
- 15 December – Jack (Nonpareil) Dempsey, boxer (died 1896).
- Gertrude Kelly, surgeon and radical activist in New York (died 1934 in the United States).
Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
Moss, Michael; Hume, John R. (1986). Shipbuilders to the World: 125 years of Harland and Wolff, Belfast 1861–1986. Belfast: Blackstaff Press. ISBN 0-85640-343-1.