1770 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1770 in Ireland
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Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
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Births
- 30 November - Andrew Blayney, 11th Baron BlayneyAndrew Blayney, 11th Baron BlayneyLieutenant General Andrew Thomas Blayney, 11th Baron Blayney was an Irish peer. He ruled the Blayney estate at Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan for fifty years from 1784 to 1834, and was one of the most illustrious soldiers ever to come from Co...
, soldier, politician and peer (d.18321832 in Ireland-Births:*6 May - Margaret Anna Cusack, nun, writer and founder of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace .*10 May - William Russell Grace, businessman and first Roman Catholic mayor of New York ....
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- William Reid ClannyWilliam Reid ClannyWilliam Reid Clanny was an Irish inventor.He was born in Bangor, County Down, Ireland. He moved to Sunderland, England and practised as a physician for 45 years.In 1813, he invented the Clanny safety lamp for miners...
, physician and inventor of the Clanny safety lamp for miners (d.18501850 in Ireland-Events:* March 31 - The paddle steamer , bound from Cork to London, sinks in the English Channel with the loss of all 250 on board.* Crumlin Road Courthouse in Belfast is completed.-Births:...
). - James OrrJames Orr (poet)James Orr was a poet or rhyming weaver from Ulster also known as the Bard of Ballycarry, who wrote in English and Ulster Scots. He was the foremost of the Ulster Weaver Poets, and was writing contemporaneously with Robert Burns...
, rhyming weaver poet (d.18161816 in Ireland-Events:* The Year Without a Summer - Famine and typhoid kills 65,000 people * Belfast Savings Bank founded .*Templemore Market House is built, County Tipperary* The Ha'penny Bridge is built over Dublin's River Liffey...
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Deaths
- 12 January - James Stopford, 1st Earl of CourtownJames Stopford, 1st Earl of CourtownJames Stopford, 1st Earl of Courtown was an Irish politician.Courtown was the son of James Stopford, of Courtown, County Wexford, who represented Wexford County in the Irish House of Commons, and his wife Frances...
, politician (b.17001700 in Ireland-Events:* December 28 - Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.-Full date unknown:*James Arbuckle, poet and critic .*Daniel O'Reilly, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher ....
). - 12 September - William Annesley, 1st Viscount GlerawlyWilliam Annesley, 1st Viscount GlerawlyWilliam Annesley, 1st Viscount Glerawly was an Irish politician and noble.Lord Glerawly was the sixth son of Francis Annesley and Elizabeth Martin. Through his father, Lord Glerawly was the grandson of Francis Annesley, 1st Viscount Valentia and thus his descendants are in the remainder to the...
, politician (b.17101710 in Ireland- Ireland's Oldest Brewery Founded :Smithwick's is an Irish red ale style beer from Kilkenny in Ireland. Smithwick’s was originally brewed in St. Francis Abbey Brewery in Kilkenny, known as 'Smithwicks Brewery' until c.2000. The brewery is situated on the site of a Franciscan abbey where monks had...
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- Francis Lucas, naval officer and merchant trader (b. c1741).