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1741 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1741 in Ireland.

Incumbent

  • Monarch: George II

Events

  • January–April – Great Irish Famine (1740–1741) at its height.
  • June–August – hot summer. The harvest is improved, but disease encouraged.
  • 2 October – the Bull's Head Musical Society opens a Music Hall in Fishamble Street, Dublin.
  • 18 November – the composer George Frideric Handel arrives in Dublin to give a series of concerts.
  • Commencement of construction of obelisk and other works on Killiney Hill (overlooking Dublin Bay) by John Mapas to relieve poverty.
  • Completion of rebuilding of Powerscourt House in County Wicklow by the architect Richard Cassels.

Births

  • 23 June – William Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty, politician and statesman (died 1805).
  • 4 October – Edmond Malone, Shakespeare scholar and literary critic (died 1812).
  • 11 October – James Barry, painter (died 1806).
  • Approximate date – Bryan Higgins, chemist (died 1818)

Deaths

  • 16 March – Thomas FitzMaurice, 1st Earl of Kerry, politician (born 1668).
  • John Ussher, soldier and politician (born 1682).

References

References

  1. (1989). "A New History of Ireland. '''8''': A Chronology of Irish History". Oxford University Press.
  2. de Courcy, J.W.. (1996). "The Liffey in Dublin". Gill & Macmillan.
  3. Burrows, Donald. (2004). "Handel, George Frideric (1685–1759)". Oxford University Press.
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