1790 in Ireland

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1790
in
Ireland

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.

Incumbent[]

  • Monarch: George III

Events[]

  • 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.

Arts and literature[]

  • Emo Court, near Emo, County Laois, is designed by James Gandon for John Dawson, 1st Earl of Portarlington.

Births[]

  • 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).

Deaths[]

  • Patrick Browne, physician and botanist (born 1720).

References[]

  1. ^ Lindsay, Deirdre (1990). Dublin's Oldest Charity. Dublin: Anniversary Press. ISBN 1-870940-06-7.
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