1724 in Ireland

Events from the year 1724 in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: George I

Events

• March – Jonathan Swift publishes the first of the Drapier's Letters (A Letter To the Shop-Keepers, Tradesmen, Farmers, and Common-People of Ireland, Concerning the Brass Half-Pence Coined by Mr. Woods).
• 22 May – a total solar eclipse crosses Ireland around 6:30 p.m.
• John Neal, an instrument-maker and music publisher based in Christ Church Yard, Dublin, publishes the earliest printed collection of Irish music, which includes pieces by Irish harpist Turlough O'Carolan.

Births

• March 24 – Richard Hamilton, 4th Viscount Boyne, politician (d. 1789)
• October 20 – Thomas Taylour, 1st Earl of Bective, politician (d. 1795)
• Samuel Derrick, hack writer (d. 1769 in England)
• John Hely, later Hely-Hutchinson, lawyer and statesman (d. 1794)
• John Pomeroy, British Army officer (d. 1790)
• Frances Sheridan, novelist and playwright (d. 1766)
• 1724 or 1725 – Arthur Guinness, brewer (d. 1803)
• Approximate date
  • Robert Blakeney, politician (d. 1762)
  • Frances Greville née Macartney, poet (d. 1789)
  • Samuel Clossy anatomist (d. 1786)

Deaths

• February 10 or 1723 – Henry Colley, politician (b. c.1685)
• November – Liam an Dúna Mac Cairteáin, poet and soldier (b. 1668)
• John Barnwell, colonist in the Province of South Carolina (b. 1671)
• Approximate date – Proinsias Ó Doibhlin, poet and priest.

References

Sources

1. 1724
2. Drapier's Letters
3. Richard Hennessy
4. Guy Carleton
5. Dublin
6. 1724 in literature
7. 1724 in Canada
8. William Talbot (died 1724)
9. Greville
10. Levinge
11. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
12. Slavery in Ireland
13. John Rogerson (1648–1724)
14. 1724 in poetry
15. George III
16. Robert King
17. Mary I of England
18. Taylour
19. Richard Hamilton
20. John Tuchet