1780 in Ireland

1780 in Ireland

Events

*Sacramental Test abolished.cite book | last=Moody, TW & Martin, FX (eds)| year=1967 |title=The Course of Irish History | publisher=The Mercier Press | location=Cork, Ireland | pages=p 373]
*Henry Grattan demands parliamentary independence.

Births

*January - William Henry Fitton, geologist (d.1861).
*13 April - Alexander Mitchell, engineer and inventor of the screw-pile lighthouse (d.1868).
*17 August - George Croly, poet, novelist, historian and divine (d.1860).
*20 December - John Wilson Croker, statesman and author (d.1857).

Full date unknown

*Michael John Brenan, priest and ecclesiastical historian (d.1847).
*Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin, author, teacher, draper and politician (d.1838).

Deaths

References


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