1761_in_Ireland Knowpia

Centuries:	16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th;
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See also:	Other events of 1761 ; List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1761 in Ireland.

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10 November – Protestant "manifesto of intolerance" ("Black Petition") against Roman Catholics signed in Galway.^[1]

20 July – Arthur Gore, 3rd Earl of Arran, politician (died 1837).
17 September – Samuel Neilson, one of the founder members of the Society of United Irishmen and the founder of its newspaper the Northern Star (died 1803).
21 November – Dorothea Jordan (née Bland), actress and royal mistress (died 1816 in France).
Full date unknown
- Michael Byrne, signed as an able seaman by Captain Bligh on HMS Bounty, primarily to play the fiddle.^[2]

^ Hardiman, James (1820). The History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway, from the earliest period to the present time. Dublin.
^ Alexander, C. (2003), The Bounty: the True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty ISBN 0-670-03133-X, p. 84