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1779 in Ireland
Summary
Events from the year
1779 in Ireland
.
←
1778
1777
1776
1775
1774
1779
in
Ireland
→
1780
1781
1782
1783
1784
Centuries:
16th
17th
18th
19th
20th
Decades:
1750s
1760s
1770s
1780s
1790s
See also:
Other events of 1779
List of years in Ireland
Incumbent
edit
Monarch
:
George III
Events
edit
Armed
Volunteers
demonstrate in
Dublin
for
free trade
between Ireland and England.
[1]
This demand for amendment of the
Navigation Acts
is quickly granted by the British government.
[2]
Grand Canal
opens to traffic between
Dublin
and
Sallins
.
[3]
Spike Island, County Cork
, is acquired by the government to form part of the defences of
Cork Harbour
.
New
Church of Ireland
Christ Church Cathedral, Waterford
, completed.
Births
edit
22 January –
Charles O'Neill, 1st Earl O'Neill
, landowner and politician (died
1841
).
February –
Richard Carmichael
,
surgeon
(died
1849
).
30 March –
Antoine Ó Raifteiri
, "last of the wandering
bards
" (died
1835
).
16 April –
Patrick Kelly
,
Roman Catholic
Bishop of Waterford and Lismore
(died
1829
).
28 May –
Thomas Moore
, poet, singer, songwriter and entertainer (died
1852
).
17 August –
William Corbet
, member of the
United Irishmen
, soldier, Commander-in-Chief of French forces in Greece (died
1842
).
3 November –
Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough
,
British
Field Marshal
(died
1869
).
Arthur Brooke Faulkner
,
physician
and writer (died
1845
).
John Oldham
, mechanical engineer (died
1840
).
Thomas Ussher
,
Royal Navy
officer (died
1848
).
Possible date –
Julia Glover
née Betterton, comic actress (died
1850
).
Deaths
edit
April –
Anthony Foster
, lawyer and politician (born
1705
).
18 October –
Patrick d'Arcy
, mathematical physicist and soldier in France (born
1725
).
10 December –
Thomas Fortescue
, politician (born
1744
).
Risteárd Buidhe Kirwan
, soldier and duellist (died
1708
).
Thomas Newburgh
, poet (born c.1695).
Thomas Tennison
, lawyer and politician (born
1707
).
References
edit
^
Curtis, Liz (1994).
The Cause of Ireland: From the United Irishmen to Partition
. Beyond the Pale Publications. p. 4.
ISBN
0-9514229-6-0
.
^
Barrington, Jonah
. "Chapter 7".
Historic Memoirs
.
^
Delany, Ruth (1988).
A celebration of 250 years of Ireland's Inland Waterways
. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 80.
ISBN
0-86281-200-3
.