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1771 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1771 in Ireland.

Incumbent

  • Monarch: George III

Events

  • 7 August – foundation stone of Clifton House, Belfast, the Belfast Charitable Society's poorhouse, is laid.
  • October – Achmet Borumborad, con-artist, opens a Turkish Baths on Bachelor's Quay (modern day Bachelor's Walk), Dublin.
  • The first of the Roman Catholic relief bills passes into law, permitting Catholics to reclaim and hold under lease for sixty-one years 50 acres (20 ha) of bog if more than a mile of any city or market town.
  • Archbishop Richard Robinson founds the Armagh Public Library.
  • William James of Bailieborough emigrates to the Thirteen Colonies of North America where he will make a great fortune in Albany, New York, and become father of Henry James Sr.

Births

  • 19 July – Thomas Talbot, soldier and politician in Upper Canada (died 1853).
  • 26 October – Juan Mackenna, soldier in Chile (died 1814).
  • William Homan, only Dunlum Baronet (died 1852).
  • Edward Jordan, rebel, fisherman and pirate in Nova Scotia (executed 1809).
  • Edward Kernan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher from 1824 (died 1844).
  • Philip Nolan, horse-trader and freebooter (killed 1801 in the United States).
  • Approximate date
    • Elizabeth Rebecca Edwin née Richards, actress (died 1854).
    • James Bardin Palmer, land agent, lawyer and politician in Prince Edward Island (died 1833).

Deaths

  • 24 September – Arthur Jones-Nevill, Surveyor General of Ireland and politician (born c.1712).
  • 4 November – Charles Lucas, apothecary, physician and radical politician (born 1713).
  • 25 November – Sir Richard Butler, 5th Baronet, politician (born 1699).
  • 18 December – James O'Brien, politician (born 1701?).

References

References

  1. Fallon, Donal. (2018-03-01). "The curious story of Achmet Borumborad and the Turkish Baths".
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