1774 in Ireland
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Births
- 7 May - Francis BeaufortFrancis BeaufortRear-Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, FRS, FRGS was an Irish hydrographer and officer in Britain's Royal Navy...
, hydrographer and officer in the BritishUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name of the United Kingdom during the period when what is now the Republic of Ireland formed a part of it....
Royal NavyRoyal NavyThe Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...
, creator of the Beaufort scaleBeaufort scaleThe Beaufort Scale is an empirical measure that relates wind speed to observed conditions at sea or on land. Its full name is the Beaufort Wind Force Scale.-History:...
(d.18571857 in Ireland-Events:*April - General election.*12 July - In Belfast, confrontations between crowds of Catholics and Protestants turn into 10 days of rioting, with many of the police force joining the Protestant side...
). - 11 July - Somerset Lowry-Corry, 2nd Earl BelmoreSomerset Lowry-Corry, 2nd Earl BelmoreSomerset Lowry-Corry, 2nd Earl Belmore , styled The Honourable from 1781 to 1797 and then known as Viscount Corry to 1802, was an Irish nobleman and politician.-Politics and inheritance:...
, politician and statesman (d.18411841 in Ireland-Events:*3 November - Foundation stone for Saint Malachy's Church, Belfast is laid .*First thorough census is completed and population is calculated to be just under 8.25 million....
). - 29 December - Maurice FitzGerald, 18th Knight of KerryMaurice FitzGerald, 18th Knight of KerryMaurice FitzGerald, 18th Knight of Kerry was an hereditary knight and an Irish Whig politician.FitzGerald represented Kerry in the Irish House of Commons from 1795 until the Act of Union in 1801. He sat also for Tralee in 1800....
, WhigBritish Whig PartyThe Whigs were a party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s. The Whigs' origin lay in constitutional monarchism and opposition to absolute rule...
politician (d.18491849 in Ireland-Events:* 12 July — Battle of Dolly's Brae: Up to 1400 armed Orangemen march from Rathfriland to Tollymore Park near Castlewellan, County Down. When 1000 armed Ribbonmen gather, shots are fired, Catholic homes are burnt and about eighty Catholics killed....
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- Máire Bhuí Ní LaoghaireMáire Bhuí Ní LaoghaireMáire Bhuí Ní Laoghaire was an Irish poet.Laoghaire was born in Túirín na nÉan in Uibh Laoghaire , near Ballingeary, County Cork...
, poet (d.c1849). - Bartholomew TeelingBartholomew TeelingCaptain Bartholomew Teeling was a leader of the Irish forces during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and who carried out an act of bravery during the Battle of Collooney...
, a leader of the IrishIrelandIreland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
forces during the Irish Rebellion of 1798Irish Rebellion of 1798The Irish Rebellion of 1798 , also known as the United Irishmen Rebellion , was an uprising in 1798, lasting several months, against British rule in Ireland...
(d.17981798 in Ireland-Events:* March - Great Britain's Irish militia arrest the leadership of the Society of United Irishmen marking the beginning of the 1798 Rebellion. * 19 May - Rebel leader Lord Edward FitzGerald is arrested in Dublin....
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Deaths
- 4 April - Oliver GoldsmithOliver GoldsmithOliver Goldsmith was an Irish writer, poet and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield , his pastoral poem The Deserted Village , and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man and She Stoops to Conquer...
, novelist and playwright (b.1728 or 1730). - 11 July - Sir William Johnson, 1st BaronetSir William Johnson, 1st BaronetSir William Johnson, 1st Baronet was an Anglo-Irish official of the British Empire. As a young man, Johnson came to the Province of New York to manage an estate purchased by his uncle, Admiral Peter Warren, which was located amidst the Mohawk, one of the Six Nations of the Iroquois League...
, pioneer and army officer in colonial New YorkProvince of New YorkThe Province of New York was an English and later British crown territory that originally included all of the present U.S. states of New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Vermont, along with inland portions of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Maine, as well as eastern Pennsylvania...
(b.17151715 in Ireland-Births:*Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, pioneer and army officer in colonial New York .*Patrick Lynch, emigrant to Rio de la Plata, and successful landowner.-Deaths:...
). - 27 December - Henry MossopHenry Mossop-Life:He was born in Dunmore, County Galway where his father was a clergyman. He made his first stage appearance as Zanga in Young's tragedy The Revenge at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin in 1749....
, actor (b.17291729 in Ireland-Births:*12 January - Edmund Burke, statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher .-Deaths:*May - William King, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin and author ....
). - Sir Robert Blackwood, 1st BaronetSir Robert Blackwood, 1st BaronetSir Robert Blackwood, 1st Baronet , of Ballyleidy, County Down, was created a Baronet of Ireland on July 1, 1763...
(b.16941694 in Ireland-Arts and literature:*Jonathan Swift appointed to the prebend of Kilroot, near Carrickfergus in County Antrim .-Births:*8 August - Francis Hutcheson, theologian and philosopher .*5 November - Sir Robert Blackwood, 1st Baronet ....
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