1751_in_Ireland Knowpia

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See also:	Other events of 1751 ; List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1751 in Ireland.

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5 October – the title Earl of Upper Ossory is created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of John FitzPatrick, 2nd Baron Gowran.^[1]
The house which will become Áras an Uachtaráin is built in Phoenix Park, Dublin, by the park's Chief Ranger, politician Nathaniel Clements, to his own design.^[2]

The actress Peg Woffington begins a 3-year residence in her native Dublin at Thomas Sheridan's Smock Alley Theatre.

September – William Hare, 1st Earl of Listowel, peer and MP (died 1837).
19 October – Charles Edward Jennings de Kilmaine, soldier in France (died 1799).
30 October – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright and statesman (died 1816).
Undated – Edward Marcus Despard, British colonel turned revolutionary (executed for high treason 1803).

^ Namier, Lewis; Brooke, John (1985). The House of Commons, 1754-1790. Boydell & Brewer. p. 431. ISBN 978-0-436-30420-0.
^ "Outline History of Áras an Uachtaráin". Áras an Uachtaráin. Retrieved 2013-01-07.