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1765 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1765 in Ireland.

Incumbent

  • Monarch: George III

Events

  • Coercion Act against the Whiteboys.
  • First Magdalene asylum (for Protestant girls) in Ireland opens on Leeson Street in Dublin, founded by Lady Arabella Denny.
  • Gracehill established in County Antrim as a Moravian community.

Arts and literature

  • Sculptor Christopher Hewetson settles in Rome.

Births

  • 14 January – George Knox, politician (died 1827).
  • 13 April – Thomas Wallace, politician (died 1847).
  • 19 July – George Beresford, Church of Ireland Bishop of Kilmore (died 1841).
  • 6 December – Edward O'Reilly, scholar (died 1830).
  • 29 December - Laurence Hynes Halloran, alleged criminal deported to Australia
  • Robert Holmes, barrister and nationalist (died 1859).
  • Samuel Turner, barrister and informer (killed 1807).
  • Approximate date – Charles Bourke, priest (died 1820).

Deaths

  • 24 November – William Dunkin, poet (born c.1709).
  • 26 November – Sir Edward O'Brien, 2nd Baronet, politician (born 1705).
  • 29 December – John Alexander, minister and writer (born 1736).
  • 31 December – Samuel Madden, clergyman, writer and benefactor (born 1686).

References

References

  1. (1967). "The Course of Irish History". Mercier Press.
  2. McCarthy, Rebecca Lea. (2010). "Origins of the Magdalene laundries: an analytical history". McFarland.
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