1724 in Ireland

Events from the year 1724 in Ireland

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Centuries:
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Decades:
  • 1700s
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  • 1730s
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See also:Other events of 1724
List of years in Ireland

Incumbent
  • Monarch: George I

Events
  • March – Jonathan Swift publishes the first of the Drapier's Letters (A Letter To the Shop-Keepers, Tradesmen, Farmers, and Common-People of Ireland, Concerning the Brass Half-Pence Coined by Mr. Woods).[1]
  • 22 May – a total solar eclipse crosses Ireland around 6:30 p.m.
  • John Neal, an instrument-maker and music publisher based in Christ Church Yard, Dublin, publishes the earliest printed collection of Irish music, which includes pieces by Irish harpist Turlough O'Carolan.[2]

Births
Arthur Guinness
  • March 24 – Richard Hamilton, 4th Viscount Boyne, politician (d. 1789)
  • October 20 – Thomas Taylour, 1st Earl of Bective, politician (d. 1795)
  • Samuel Derrick, hack writer (d. 1769 in England)
  • John Hely, later Hely-Hutchinson, lawyer and statesman (d. 1794)
  • John Pomeroy, British Army officer (d. 1790)
  • Frances Sheridan, novelist and playwright (d. 1766)
  • 1724 or 1725 – Arthur Guinness, brewer (d. 1803)
  • Approximate date
    • Robert Blakeney, politician (d. 1762)
    • Frances Greville née Macartney, poet (d. 1789)
    • Samuel Clossy anatomist (d. 1786)

Deaths
  • February 10 or 1723 – Henry Colley, politician (b. c.1685)
  • November – Liam an Dúna Mac Cairteáin, poet and soldier (b. 1668)
  • John Barnwell, colonist in the Province of South Carolina (b. 1671)
  • Approximate date – Proinsias Ó Doibhlin, poet and priest.

References
  1. Scott, Temple (1903). "Letter 1, Introductory Note". The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, vol. VI: The Drapier's Letters. London: George Bell and Sons.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. Bardon 2015, p. 14.

Sources
  • Bardon, Jonathan (2015). Hallelujah - The Story of a Musical Genius and the City That Brought his Masterpiece to Life. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. ISBN 978-0717163540.
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