1734 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1734 in Ireland.
Incumbent
[edit]Events
[edit]- 29 April
- Act prohibits converts from Roman Catholicism to the Church of Ireland from educating their children in the old religion or from becoming Justices of Peace.[1]
- Act for relief of creditors of failed banks.[1]
- 19 May – George Berkeley is consecrated as Church of Ireland Bishop of Cloyne.[1]
- 17 August – Mercer's Hospital for the sick and poor in Dublin is founded under a bequest of Mary Mercer.[1]
Arts and literature
[edit]- March – upper gallery of the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin collapses for the third time.
- November – George Faulkner begins publication of an edition of Jonathan Swift's Works in Dublin[1] with a corrected text.
Births
[edit]- 25 July – Arthur Gore, 2nd Earl of Arran, politician (d. 1809)
- Boetius Egan, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam (d. 1798)
Deaths
[edit]- 28 September – James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn (b. c.1661)
- Richard Cantillon, economic theorist (b. 1680)