1729 in Ireland

1729 in Ireland

Events

Abraham Lincoln is born.

Arts and Literature

*Jonathan Swift publishes "A Modest Proposal".

Births

*12 January - Edmund Burke, statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher (d.1797).

Full date unknown

*Henry Mossop, actor (d.1774).

Deaths

*May - William King, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin and author (b.1650).
*1 September - Richard Steele, writer and politician, co-founder of "The Spectator" magazine (b.1672).

Full date unknown

*Aogán Ó Rathaille, Irish language poet (b. c1675).
*Jonathan Smedley, religious opportunist and satirical victim who engaged in polemic with Jonathan Swift and the Tory party (b.1671).


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