de Courcy Ireland (1 August 1873 – 28 January 1915) was an Irish first-class cricketer and British Indian Army officer. The son of William de Courcy Ireland, a civil servant, he was born in August 1873 at Henzada in British Burma. He was educated in both Ireland and Germany, before attending the Royal Military College, Sandhurst from which he graduated into the Royal Fusiliers as a second lieutenant December 1892. He transferred to the Indian Staff Corps in July 1897, at which point he was promoted to lieutenant. He took part in the 1897 Tirah campaign against the revolting Afridi tribe in the North-West Frontier Province. In September of the same year, Ireland made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Europeans cricket team against the Parsees at Poona in the 1897/98 Bombay