1741_in_Ireland Knowpia

Centuries:	16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th;
Decades:	1720s; 1730s; 1740s; 1750s; 1760s;
See also:	Other events of 1741; List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1741 in Ireland.

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January–April – Great Irish Famine (1740–1741) at its height.^[1]
June–August – hot summer. The harvest is improved, but disease encouraged.^[1]
2 October – the Bull's Head Musical Society opens a Music Hall in Fishamble Street, Dublin.^[2]
18 November – the composer George Frideric Handel arrives in Dublin to give a series of concerts.^[3]
Commencement of construction of obelisk and other works on Killiney Hill (overlooking Dublin Bay) by John Mapas to relieve poverty.^[1]
Completion of rebuilding of Powerscourt House in County Wicklow by the architect Richard Cassels.

23 June – William Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty, politician and statesman (died 1805).
4 October – Edmond Malone, Shakespeare scholar and literary critic (died 1812).
11 October – James Barry, painter (died 1806).
Approximate date – Bryan Higgins, chemist (died 1818)

^ ^a ^b ^c Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
^ de Courcy, J.W. (1996). The Liffey in Dublin. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. p. 468. ISBN 0-7171-2423-1.
^ Burrows, Donald (2004). "Handel, George Frideric (1685–1759)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online (October 2007) ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/12192. Retrieved 2013-02-26. (subscription or UK public library membership required)