• 23 May – following disorder at Castlepollard Fair in County Westmeath, at least seven men and two women are shot dead by the constabulary.^[1]
• 7 August – the Representation of the People (Ireland) Act, 1832, commonly called the Irish Reform Act 1832, introduces wide-ranging changes to the laws for elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom, particularly in the Boroughs.^[2]

• January – Theatre Royal, Wexford opened.

• 6 May – Margaret Anna Cusack, nun, writer and founder of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace (died 1899 in England).
• 10 May – William Russell Grace, businessman and first Roman Catholic mayor of New York (died 1904 in the United States).
• September – John Byrne, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1854 at the Battle of Inkerman, Crimea (died 1879 in Wales).
• 30 September – Charlotte Riddell, née Cowan, novelist and editor (died 1906 in England).
• 11 November – Martin Murphy, civil engineer (died 1926 in Canada).
• 14 November – Stopford Brooke, Anglican clergyman and writer (died 1916 in England).

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• Patrick Carlin, Victoria Cross soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 in India (died 1895).
• Thomas McCarthy, businessman and politician in Quebec (died 1870 in Canada).
• Standish Hayes O'Grady, antiquarian (died 1915 in England).
• Joseph Ward, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Gwalior, India (died 1872).

• 20 January – Alexander Nimmo, Scottish civil engineer and geologist active in early 19th-century Ireland
• 8 April – Andrew Blayney, 11th Baron Blayney, soldier, politician and peer (born 1770).
• 18 September – Henry Boyd, literary translator.
• 28 December – Henry Conyngham, 1st Marquess Conyngham, politician (born 1766).

• 1832 in Scotland
• 1832 in Wales