1773 in Ireland

Events from the year 1773 in Ireland.

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Centuries:
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  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
Decades:
  • 1750s
  • 1760s
  • 1770s
  • 1780s
  • 1790s
See also:Other events of 1773
List of years in Ireland

Incumbent
  • Monarch: George III

Events
  • Formation of Volunteer corps: the First Magherafelt Volunteers (June); and the Offerlane Blues (10 October).[1]

Arts and literature
  • 15 March – first performance of Oliver Goldsmith's comedy She Stoops to Conquer at the Covent Garden Theatre in London.[2]
  • 4 May – Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill (Eileen O' Connell) composes the keen Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire over the body of her husband Art Ó Laoghaire.[3]
  • Thomas Leland publishes The History of Ireland, from the invasion of Henry II.

Births
  • 23 July – Abraham Colles, professor of Anatomy, Surgery and Physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (died 1843).
  • 19 August – Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry, politician (died 1853).
  • 19 November – Robert Arbuthnot, British military officer (died 1853).
  • 22 November – John George de la Poer Beresford, Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland) (died 1862).
    Full date unknown
    • William Beatty, Ship's Surgeon on HMS Victory during the Battle of Trafalgar (died 1842).
    • Edward Bunting, musician (died 1843).
    • John Shaw, Captain in the United States Navy (died 1823).

Deaths
  • 17 April – Arthur Gore, 1st Earl of Arran, politician (born 1703).
  • 19 November – Charles Clinton, French and Indian War Colonel (born 1690.
  • 19 November – James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, politician (born 1722).

References
  1. Bigger, Francis Joseph (May 1909). "The National Volunteers of Ireland, 1782". Ulster Journal of Archaeology. 2nd Series. 15 (2/3).
  2. "She Stoops to Conquer or The Mistakes of a Night". theatrehistory.com. Archived from the original on 14 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-25.
  3. Broderick, Marian (2002). Wild Irish Women. Dublin: O'Brien Press. pp. 65–7. ISBN 978-0-86278-780-6.
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