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1784 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1784 in Ireland.

Incumbent

  • Monarch: George III

Events

  • 11 February – Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland chartered.
  • 15 April – the first ascent of a manned balloon in the British Isles takes place with a hot air balloon at Navan
  • The Old Bushmills Distillery becomes an officially registered company
  • The post of Postmasters General of Ireland established
  • William Conyngham begins installation of a planned settlement on Rutland Island, County Donegal
  • New Church of Ireland St. John's Cathedral, Cashel, completed
  • The satirist John Williams is prosecuted for an attack on the Duke of Rutland's administration in the Volunteers' Journal and flees the country

Births

  • 12 May – James Sheridan Knowles, dramatist and actor (died 1862).
  • 20 September – Sir Richard John Griffith, 1st Baronet, geologist (died 1878).
  • ;Full date unknown
  • :*Richard Church, soldier, military officer and general in the Greek Army (died 1873).
  • :*Thomas Barnwall Martin, soldier, landowner and politician (died 1847).

Deaths

  • 3 April – John Gore, 1st Baron Annaly, politician and peer (born 1718).
  • 26 April – Nano Nagle, founder of the Presentation Sisters (born 1718).
  • 29 May – George Barret, Sr., artist (born c.1730).
  • Thomas Cooley, architect (born 1740 in England).

References

References

  1. "Navan Points of Pride".
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