1768 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1768 in Ireland.
Contents
Events
- Poolbeg Lighthouse in Dublin Bay is first lit (by candlepower).[1]
- The Ladies of Llangollen meet for the first time.
- The Loftus Baronetcy, of Mount Loftus in the County of Kilkenny, is created in the Baronetage of Ireland for Edward Loftus.[2]
- Bishop John O'Brien's Irish-English dictionary, Focaloir Gaoidhilge-Sacs-Bhéarla, is published posthumously and anonymously in Paris.[3]
Births
- 22 March - Melesina Trench (née Chenevix), writer (died 1827).
- 8 April - Sir Frederick Falkiner, 1st Baronet, politician (died 1824).
- 7 May - Alexander Arbuthnot, Church of Ireland Bishop of Killaloe (died 1828).
- 9 May - Nathaniel Clements, 2nd Earl of Leitrim, nobleman and Whig MP (died 1854).
- 11 July - Joseph O'Lawlor, soldier in the service of Spain (died 1850).
- Undated
- John Milner Barry, physician (died 1822).
- Edward Donovan, writer, traveller and amateur zoologist (died 1837).
- Daniel Murray, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin (died 1852).
- Approximate date
- John Brenan, physician (died 1830).
- James McClelland, Solicitor-General for Ireland (died 1831).
Deaths
- 3 March - Richard Mounteney, judge and classical scholar (born 1707).
- 18 March - Rev. Laurence Sterne, novelist (born 1713).
- 11 September - William Francis Crosbie, politician.
- Thomas Drennan, reforming Presbyterian minister (born 1696).
- Richard Trench, politician (born 1710).