1751 in Ireland

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1751
in
Ireland

Centuries:
  • 16th
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
Decades:
  • 1730s
  • 1740s
  • 1750s
  • 1760s
  • 1770s
See also:Other events of 1751
List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1751 in Ireland.

Incumbent[]

  • Monarch: George II

Events[]

  • 5 October – the title Earl of Upper Ossory is created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of John FitzPatrick, 2nd Baron Gowran.[1]
  • The house which will become Áras an Uachtaráin is built in Phoenix Park, Dublin, by the park's Chief Ranger, politician Nathaniel Clements, to his own design.[2]

Arts and literature[]

  • The actress Peg Woffington begins a 3-year residence in her native Dublin at Thomas Sheridan's Smock Alley Theatre.

Births[]

  • September – William Hare, 1st Earl of Listowel, peer and MP (died 1837).
  • 19 October – Charles Edward Jennings de Kilmaine, soldier in France (died 1799).
  • 30 October – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright and statesman (died 1816).
  • Undated – Edward Marcus Despard, British colonel turned revolutionary (executed for high treason 1803).

Deaths[]

  • 19 April – Peter Lacy, soldier, imperial commander in Russia (born 1678).

References[]

  1. ^ Namier, Lewis; Brooke, John (1985). The House of Commons, 1754-1790. Boydell & Brewer. p. 431. ISBN 978-0-436-30420-0.
  2. ^ "Outline History of Áras an Uachtaráin". Áras an Uachtaráin. Retrieved 2013-01-07.
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