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1790 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1790 in Ireland.

Incumbents

Monarch: George III

Events

15 March – The Sick and Indigent Roomkeepers' Society is established in Dublin; by the 21st century this will be the city's oldest surviving charity.
May – construction begins on the Royal Canal at Cross Guns Bridge in Phibsborough, Dublin.
Armagh Observatory, founded by Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby, Archbishop of Armagh, begins to function.

Arts and literature

Emo Court, near Emo, County Laois, is designed by James Gandon for John Dawson, 1st Earl of Portarlington.

Births

1 January – George Petrie, painter, musician, antiquary and archaeologist (died 1866).
15 April – Theobald Jones, British Royal Navy officer, lichenologist and Unionist politician (died 1868).
June – Arthur Jacob, ophthalmologist (died 1874).
10 October – Father Theobald Mathew, temperance reformer (died 1856).
Alexander Pearce, transported convict and cannibal (executed 1824 in Van Diemen's Land).

Deaths

Patrick Browne, physician and botanist (born 1720).

References

Sources

References

Lindsay, Deirdre. (1990). "Dublin's Oldest Charity". Anniversary Press.

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