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1791 in Ireland
Summary
Events from the year
1791 in Ireland
.
←
1790
1789
1788
1787
1786
1791
in
Ireland
→
1792
1793
1794
1795
1796
Centuries:
16th
17th
18th
19th
20th
Decades:
1770s
1780s
1790s
1800s
1810s
See also:
Other events of 1791
List of years in Ireland
Incumbent
edit
Monarch
:
George III
Events
edit
September –
Wolfe Tone
publishes
Argument on Behalf of the Catholics of Ireland
.
14 October – the Northern Whig Club, a group of nine
Belfast
Presbyterians
, meets with Wolfe Tone and
Thomas Russell
and forms the
Society of United Irishmen
to press for
liberal
non-denominational
parliamentary
reform.
7 November –
The Custom House
in
Dublin
opens for business, having been completed under the supervision of
James Gandon
.
The Custom House
, Dublin
The
Grand Canal
opens to a junction with the
Barrow
at
Athy
.
[1]
The first bridge across the
River Foyle
at
Derry
, built by the
American
Lemuel Cox in wood, is opened to vehicular traffic.
[2]
Births
edit
6 March –
John MacHale
,
Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam
,
Irish Nationalist
and writer (died
1881
).
17 August –
Richard Lalor Sheil
, politician, writer and orator (died
1851
).
14 December –
Charles Wolfe
, poet (died
1823
).
Full date unknown
James Graham
, soldier, commended for his gallantry during the
Battle of Waterloo
(died
1845
).
Deaths
edit
2 December –
Henry Flood
, statesman (born
1732
).
Full date unknown
George Bryan
, businessman, statesman and politician in
Pennsylvania
(born
1731
).
Robert Carver
, artist (b. c1730).
References
edit
^
Delany, Ruth (1988).
A celebration of 250 years of Ireland's Inland Waterways
. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 82.
ISBN
0-86281-200-3
.
^
"The Boston Bridge - Londonderry's First Bridge Across The Foyle".
Northern Scrivener
. 2012-12-30
. Retrieved
2013-02-27
.