1739 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1739 in Ireland.
Events
- April 27 - The trial of Henry Barry, 4th Baron Barry of Santry, before the Irish House of Lords for the drunken murder of a tavern servant in Palmerstown the previous summer opens; he is convicted but later pardoned.
- July–August - Wet summer, affecting the harvest and the cutting of turf.[1]
- September 26 - "Address of the Roman Catholics of Ireland" to George II of Great Britain requesting longer leases.[1]
- October 6 - The title Earl of Bessborough is created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of Brabazon Ponsonby, 2nd Viscount Duncannon, chief commissioner of revenue.[1]
- December 27–February 1740 - The 'Great Frost': unusually harsh winter.[2]
Births
- September 27 - Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry, politician (d. 1821)
- October 31 - James Gordon, merchant, soldier, and politician in America (d. 1810)
Full date unknown
- Judge Fulton, judge, surveyor, politician, and founder of the village of Bass River, Nova Scotia (d. 1826)
- Hugh Kelly, dramatist and poet (d. 1777)
- Hugh O'Reilly, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher (d. 1801)
Deaths
- Charles Jervas, painter, translator and art collector (b. c.1675)
References
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