1790_in_Ireland Knowpia

Centuries:	16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th;
Decades:	1770s; 1780s; 1790s; 1800s; 1810s;
See also:	Other events of 1790 ; List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1790 in Ireland.

Incumbents edit

15 March – The Sick and Indigent Roomkeepers' Society is established in Dublin; by the 21st century this will be the city's oldest surviving charity.^[1]
Armagh Observatory, founded by Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby, Archbishop of Armagh, begins to function.

1 January – George Petrie, painter, musician, antiquary and archaeologist (died 1866).
15 April – Theobald Jones, British Royal Navy officer, lichenologist and Unionist politician (died 1868).
June – Arthur Jacob, ophthalmologist (died 1874).
10 October – Father Theobald Mathew, temperance reformer (died 1856).