1734 in Ireland

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See also:Other events of 1734
List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1734 in Ireland.

Incumbent[]

  • Monarch: George II

Events[]

  • April 29
    • Act prohibits converts from Roman Catholicism to the Church of Ireland from educating their children in the old religion or from becoming Justices of Peace.[1]
    • Act for relief of creditors of failed banks.[1]
  • May 19 – George Berkeley is consecrated as Church of Ireland Bishop of Cloyne.[1]
  • August 17 – Mercer's Hospital for the sick and poor in Dublin is founded under a bequest of Mary Mercer.[1]

Arts and literature[]

  • March – upper gallery of the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin collapses for the third time.
  • November – George Faulkner begins publication of an edition of Jonathan Swift's Works in Dublin[1] with a corrected text.

Births[]

  • July 25 – Arthur Gore, 2nd Earl of Arran, politician (d. 1809)
  • Boetius Egan, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam (d. 1798)

Deaths[]

  • September 28 – James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn (b. c.1661)
  • Richard Cantillon, economic theorist (b. 1680)

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
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