1762 in Ireland

Events from the year 1762 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: George III

Events

• February – Roman Catholic nobility and gentry offer support to King George III in the Seven Years' War in the Iberian Peninsula.
• 20 March – a French privateer takes six ships off Youghal.
• 30 April – acts grant security to Protestants who have acquired property from Catholics.
• Old St. Thomas's Church, Dublin, in Marlborough Street, is completed.
• Watt distillery in Derry is established; it will produce Tyrconnell (whiskey).

Arts and literature

• 14 May – Charles Macklin's The True-Born Irishman is first performed at the Crow Street Theatre in Dublin.
• Approximate date – James Barry paints Baptism of the King of Cashel.

Births

• 11 January – Andrew Cherry, playwright, songwriter, actor and theatrical manager (died 1812 in Wales).
• 24 February – Gideon Ouseley, Methodism's 'apostle to the Irish' (died 1839).
• 20 May – Eyre Coote, British Army officer (died 1832).
• 1 June – Edmund Ignatius Rice, Roman Catholic missionary and educationalist, founder of the Congregation of Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers (died 1844).
• 12 June – Chambré Brabazon Ponsonby-Barker, politician (died 1834).
• 25 December – Michael Kelly, actor, singer and composer (died 1826).
• Henry Browne Hayes, sheriff and abductor (died 1832).
• Approximate date – John Chetwode Eustace, Roman Catholic priest and antiquary (died 1815 in Italy).

Deaths

• 20 February – Chambré Brabazon Ponsonby, politician (born c.1720).
• 20 March – James Cuffe, landowner (born 1707).
• 22 March – Courthorpe Clayton, soldier and courtier.
• September
  • Francesco Geminiani, violinist and composer (born 1687 in Italy).
  • Seán Ó Murchadha, poet.
• 16 November – John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork, writer (born 1707).
• 30 December – Robert Blakeney, politician (born c.1724).
• Macnamara Morgan, playwright and barrister (born c.1720).
• Charles Smith, topographer and apothecary (born 1715).

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