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1747 in Ireland
Summary
Events from the year
1747 in Ireland
.
←
1746
1745
1744
1743
1742
1747
in
Ireland
→
1748
1749
1750
1751
1752
Centuries:
16th
17th
18th
19th
20th
Decades:
1720s
1730s
1740s
1750s
1760s
See also:
Other events of 1747
List of years in Ireland
Incumbent
edit
Monarch
:
George II
Events
edit
19 January – "Kelly riots" at the
Smock Alley Theatre
in
Dublin
when
Thomas Sheridan
, the proprietor, is in dispute with some gentlemen.
[1]
28 February –
George Stone
,
Church of Ireland
Bishop of Derry
, is elevated to
Archbishop of Armagh
and
Primate of All Ireland
(
letters patent
13 March), an office he will hold until
1764
.
[1]
21 April –
Edmund Burke
sets up Burke's Club, a debating society at
Trinity College Dublin
, which will become the
College Historical Society
.
[1]
9–14 August –
John Wesley
pays his first visit to Ireland.
[1]
14 August – death of
Thaddeus McCarthy
, last
Roman Catholic
Bishop of Cork and Cloyne
. The
see
is separated into the
bishopric of Cork
and the
bishopric of Cloyne and Ross
.
9 September–20 March
1748
–
Charles Wesley
pays his first visit to Ireland.
[1]
11 September –
Daniel O'Reilly
is appointed to succeed
Ross MacMahon
as Roman Catholic
Bishop of Clogher
, an office he will hold until
1778
.
Births
edit
February –
Daniel Delany
, Bishop of Kildare and Leighton (1787–1814), founder of
Carlow College
(1793),
Brigidine Sisters
(1807) and
Patrician Brothers
(1808).
8 April –
William Hales
, clergyman and scientific writer (died
1831
).
27 December –
R. Luke Concanen
, Dominican priest, consecrated first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York (died 1810 in Naples).
John Dunlap
, printer of the
United States Declaration of Independence
(died
1812 in the United States
).
Andrew Robinson Stoney
, adventurer (died 1810 in King's Bench Prison, London).
Deaths
edit
27 May –
Bernard MacMahon
, Roman Catholic
Archbishop of Armagh
(born
1680
).
Anthony Duane
, businessman in America (born
1679
).
References
edit
^
a
b
c
d
e
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
.