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1780 in Ireland
Summary
Events from the year
1780 in Ireland
.
←
1779
1778
1777
1776
1775
1780
in
Ireland
→
1781
1782
1783
1784
1785
Centuries:
16th
17th
18th
19th
20th
Decades:
1760s
1770s
1780s
1790s
1800s
See also:
Other events of 1780
List of years in Ireland
Incumbent
edit
Monarch
:
George III
Events
edit
August – passenger boat service begins on
Grand Canal
between
Dublin
and
Sallins
.
[1]
Sacramental Test abolished.
[2]
Henry Grattan
demands parliamentary independence.
[2]
Lady Berry, sentenced to death for the murder of her son, is released when she agrees to become an
executioner
(retires 1810).
The model cotton manufacturing town of
Prosperous, County Kildare
, developed by
Robert Brooke (East India Company officer)
, begins to function.
The whiskey company John Jameson is established.
Births
edit
January –
William Henry Fitton
, geologist (died
1861
).
12 March –
David Barry
,
military surgeon
and
physiologist
(died
1835
).
20 March –
Myles Byrne
, a leader of the
Irish Rebellion of 1798
and soldier in the service of France (died
1862
).
13 April –
Alexander Mitchell
, engineer and
inventor
of the
screw-pile lighthouse
(died
1868
).
May –
Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin
, author, teacher, draper and politician (died
1838
).
17 August –
George Croly
, poet, novelist, historian and divine (died
1860
).
1 December –
Edward Bowen
, lawyer and politician in
Lower Canada
(died
1866
).
20 December –
John Wilson Croker
, statesman and author (died
1857
).
Full date unknown
Michael John Brenan
, priest and ecclesiastical historian (died
1847
).
Thady Connellan
, schoolteacher and writer (died
1854
).
Anne Devlin
,
republican
and housekeeper to
Robert Emmet
(died
1851
).
Deaths
edit
2 February –
Thomas Waite
, civil servant (born
1718
).
3 June –
Henry Denny Denson
, soldier and politician in
Nova Scotia
(born c.1715).
25 August –
William Bowles
,
naturalist
(born
1705
).
October (drowned at sea) –
Robert Boyle-Walsingham
, British
Royal Navy
officer and politician (born
1736
).
19 November –
Jocelyn Deane
, politician (born
1749
).
References
edit
^
Delany, Ruth (1988).
A celebration of 250 years of Ireland's Inland Waterways
. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 80.
ISBN
0-86281-200-3
.
^
a
b
Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967).
The Course of Irish History
. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 373.