1739 in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: George II

Events

• 27 April – the trial of Henry Barry, 4th Baron Barry of Santry, before the Irish House of Lords for the drunken murder of a tavern servant in Palmerstown the previous summer opens; he is convicted but later pardoned.
• July–August – wet summer, affecting the harvest and the cutting of turf.
• 26 September – "Address of the Roman Catholics of Ireland" to George II of Great Britain requesting longer leases.
• 6 October – the title Earl of Bessborough is created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of Brabazon Ponsonby, 2nd Viscount Duncannon, chief commissioner of revenue.
• 27 December–February 1740 – the 'Great Frost': unusually harsh winter in which the River Liffey froze over, and citizens "walked and recreated themselves upon the ice".

Births

• 27 September – Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry, politician (d. 1821)
• 31 October – James Gordon, merchant, soldier, and politician in America (d. 1810)

Full date unknown

• Judge Fulton, judge, surveyor, politician, and founder of the village of Bass River, Nova Scotia (d. 1826)
• Hugh Kelly, dramatist and poet (d. 1777)
• Hugh O'Reilly, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher (d. 1801)

Deaths

• Charles Jervas, painter, translator and art collector (b. c.1675)

References

References

1. (1989). "A New History of Ireland. '''8''': A Chronology of Irish History". Oxford University Press.
2. Palmer, Alan. (1992). "The Chronology of British History". Century Ltd.
3. Watson, Samuel. (1792). "The Gentleman's and Citizen's Almanack, Compiled by Samuel Watson, For the Year of our Lord, 1792". Printed for Samuel Watson, at No. 71, in Grafton-Street, Thomas Stewart, Bookseller, No. 1, King'-Inns-Quay, and George Draper, Junior, Bookseller, seventy-one Grafton-Street, 1792.