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1724 in Ireland

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1724 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1724 in Ireland.

Contents

Events

  • March - Jonathan Swift publishes the first of the Drapier's Letters (A Letter To the Shop-Keepers, Tradesmen, Farmers, and Common-People of Ireland, Concerning the Brass Half-Pence Coined by Mr. Woods).

    • Births

  • March 24 - Richard Hamilton, 4th Viscount Boyne, politician (d. 1789)
  • October 20 - Thomas Taylour, 1st Earl of Bective, politician (d. 1795)
  • John Hely, later Hely-Hutchinson, lawyer and statesman (d. 1794)
  • John Pomeroy, British Army officer (d. 1790)
  • Frances Sheridan, novelist and playwright (d. 1766)
  • 1724 or 1725 - Arthur Guinness, brewer (d. 1803)
  • Approximate date
  • Robert Blakeney, politician (d. 1762)
  • Frances Greville née Macartney, poet (d. 1789)

    • Deaths

  • February 10 or 1723 - Henry Colley, politician (b. c.1685)
  • November - Liam an Dúna Mac Cairteáin, poet and soldier (b. 1668)
  • John Barnwell, colonist in the Province of South Carolina (b. 1671)
  • Approximate date - Proinsias Ó Doibhlin, poet and priest.

    • References

    1724 in Ireland Wikipedia
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