1735 in Ireland

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See also:Other events of 1735
List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1735 in Ireland.

Incumbent[]

  • Monarch: George II

Events[]

  • c. December – Bishop George Berkeley's economic text The Querist begins publication anonymously in Dublin.[1]
  • Construction of the Magazine Fort in Phoenix Park, Dublin, begins.
  • Thomas Carte's An History of the Life of James, Duke of Ormonde begins publication in London.

Arts and literature[]

  • The first known printed poetry by an Ulster Scots writer (in the Habbie stanza form) is published in a broadsheet in Strabane.[2]

Births[]

Thomas Conway
  • February 27 – Thomas Conway, soldier of fortune (d. c.1800)
  • July 19 – Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington, politician and composer (d. 1781)
  • September 22 – Charles Bingham, 1st Earl of Lucan, politician (d. 1799)
  • William Blakeney, British Army officer and politician (d. 1804)
  • Thomas Busby, soldier and innkeeper (d. 1798)
  • Sir Thomas Butler, 6th Baronet, politician (d. 1772)
  • Patrick Duigenan, lawyer and politician (d. 1816)
  • John McCausland, politician (d. 1804)
  • Edward Dominic O'Brien, British Army officer (d. 1801)

Deaths[]

  • January 25 – Matthew Clerk, Presbyterian minister (b. 1659)
  • February 26 – Gustavus Hamilton, politician (b. c.1685)
  • August 4 – George St George, 1st Baron St George, politician (b. c.1658)
  • August 27 – Peter Browne, Church of Ireland Bishop of Cork and Ross and writer (b. c.1665)

References[]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Hewitt, John (1974). Rhyming Weavers. Belfast: Blackstaff Press. ISBN 0856400327.
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