1719 in Ireland

Events from the year 1719 in Ireland.

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Centuries:
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  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
Decades:
  • 1690s
  • 1700s
  • 1710s
  • 1720s
  • 1730s
See also:Other events of 1719
List of years in Ireland

Incumbent
  • Monarch: George I

Events
  • November 2 – the Toleration Act ("For exempting the Protestant Dissenters of this kingdom from certain penalties to which they are now subject"), passed by the Parliament of Ireland, receives Royal Assent.[1]
  • March 26 Old Style (1720 New Style) – the Dependency of Ireland on Great Britain Act 1719 is passed by the Parliament of Great Britain.
  • First service held in the rebuilt St. Werburgh's Church, Dublin (Church of Ireland), designed by Colonel Thomas Burgh, M.P., Surveyor General of Ireland.
  • Cornelius Nary publishes a new Roman Catholic New Testament Bible translation into English, probably in Dublin.[2]

Births
  • August 18 – Bernard Ward, 1st Viscount Bangor, politician (d. 1781)
  • November 23 – Spranger Barry, actor (d. 1777)
  • James Freney, highwayman (d. 1788)
  • Godfrey Lill, lawyer and politician (d. 1783)
  • Thomas Sheridan, actor and elocutionist (d. 1788)

Deaths
  • March 18 – Élie Bouhéreau, scholar-librarian (b. 1643)
  • December 24 – William O'Brien, 3rd Earl of Inchiquin, governor (b. 1662)
  • Henry Colley, politician (b. 1648)
  • Richard Pockrich, landowner, military commander and politician (b. c.1666)

References
  1. "Bill Number 0895". Irish Legislation Database. Queen's University Belfast. Retrieved 2012-08-02.
  2. Daniell, David (2003). The Bible in English: its history and influence. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 501–2. ISBN 0-300-09930-4.
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