1741 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1741 in Ireland.
Incumbent
[edit]Events
[edit]- January–April – Great Irish Famine (1740–1741) at its height.[1]
- June–August – hot summer. The harvest is improved, but disease encouraged.[1]
- 2 October – the Bull's Head Musical Society opens a Music Hall in Fishamble Street, Dublin.[2]
- 18 November – the composer George Frideric Handel arrives in Dublin to give a series of concerts.[3]
- Commencement of construction of obelisk and other works on Killiney Hill (overlooking Dublin Bay) by John Mapas to relieve poverty.[1]
- Completion of rebuilding of Powerscourt House in County Wicklow by the architect Richard Cassels.
Births
[edit]- 23 June – William Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty, politician and statesman (died 1805).
- 4 October – Edmond Malone, Shakespeare scholar and literary critic (died 1812).
- 11 October – James Barry, painter (died 1806).
- Approximate date – Bryan Higgins, chemist (died 1818)
Deaths
[edit]- 16 March – Thomas FitzMaurice, 1st Earl of Kerry, politician (born 1668).
- John Ussher, soldier and politician (born 1682).
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
- ^ de Courcy, J.W. (1996). The Liffey in Dublin. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. p. 468. ISBN 0-7171-2423-1.
- ^ Burrows, Donald (2004). "Handel, George Frideric (1685–1759)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online (October 2007) ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/12192. Retrieved 2013-02-26. (subscription or UK public library membership required)