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1723 in Ireland

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1723 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1723 in Ireland.

Incumbent

  • Monarch: George I

Events

[[Dr Steevens' Hospital
  • March 12 – the title of Viscount Palmerston is created in the Peerage of Ireland for the politician Henry Temple.
  • December 14 – Bernard O'Gara is selected to succeed Francis Burke as Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam.
  • The first portion of Dr Steevens' Hospital is opened at Kilmainham, Dublin.
  • Avoca Handweavers, Ireland's oldest surviving business, is established in County Wicklow.

Births

  • Mervyn Archdall, antiquary (d. 1791)
  • Approximate date – William Greatrakes, lawyer (d. 1781)

Deaths

  • February 11 – Captain Hildebrand Alington, 5th Baron Alington, soldier, last Baron Alington of the first creation (b. 1641)
  • June 2 – Esther Vanhomrigh, Jonathan Swift's "Vanessa" (b. c. 1688)
  • August – William Handcock, politician (b. 1676)
  • August/September – Francis Burke, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam
  • September 16 – Gustavus Hamilton, 1st Viscount Boyne, soldier and politician (b. 1642)
  • December 22 – Mary Joseph Butler, Benedictine abbess (b. 1641)
  • Henry Colley, politician (b. c. 1685)
  • Micheál Ó Mordha, Roman Catholic priest, philosopher and educationalist (b. c. 1639)

References

References

  1. {{cite Catholic Encyclopedia. Patrick. Nolan
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