1740 in Ireland

1740 in Ireland

Events

*Great Irish Famine (1740-1741)

Births

*7 April - Armar Lowry-Corry, 1st Earl Belmore, politician and High Sheriff (d.1802).
*22 October - Philip Francis, politician and pamphleteer (d.1818).

Full date unknown

*Richard Barrett, poet and United Irishman (d.1818).
*John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel, politician and Irish Chancellor of the Exchequer (d.1828).
*Edmund Garvey, painter (d.1813).
*Nathaniel Grogan, painter (d.1807).
*James Napper Tandy, rebel leader (d.1803).

Deaths


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