page_title: 1854 in Ireland
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1854 in Ireland / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: Contemporary portrait of Irish rebel Thomas Devin Reilly circa 1847
context_page_description: 1 January – Fastnet Rock lighthouse first lit.
  21 January – the iron clipper RMS Tayleur runs aground on Lambay Island on her maiden voyage out of Liverpool with the loss of at least 300 of around 650 on board.
  18 May – Catholic University of Ireland formally established in Dublin with John Henry Newman as first rector; lectures commence on 3 November.
  21 June – during the First Battle of Bomarsund, Scarva-born Mate Charles Davis Lucas throws a live shell overboard, the earliest action to result in award of the Victoria Cross.
  20 September – during the Battle of the Alma, Elphin-born Sergeant Luke O'Connor saves the colours, the earliest action to result in award of the Victoria Cross to a soldier.
  Quarrel between Tenant League and Archbishop Cullen; League appeals to Rome.
context_section_description: 22 January – Patrick O'Donoghue, journalist and Young Irelander (in the United States).
  5 March – Thomas Devin Reilly, revolutionary, Young Irelander and journalist (born 1823).
  6 March – Charles Stewart, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, soldier, politician and nobleman (born 1778).
  8 July – George Halpin, civil engineer (born c.1779).
  8 August – Thomas Crofton Croker, antiquary (born 1798).
  19 October – Henry Prittie, 2nd Baron Dunalley, politician (born 1775).
  31 December – Nathaniel Clements, 2nd Earl of Leitrim, nobleman and Whig MP (born 1768).
caption: Thomas Devin Reilly
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