1721 in Ireland

Events from the year 1721 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: George I

Events

• June 24 – an act of the Parliament of Great Britain permits Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran, to purchase the Irish estates forfeited by his brother James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde.
• The title Baron Bessborough, of Bessborough, Piltown in the County of Kilkenny, is created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of William Ponsonby.

Births

• Henry Jones, poet and tragedian (d. 1770)
• Denis Maguire, Bishop (Catholic Church) (d. 1798)
• Robert Murray, merchant (d. 1786)
• Peter Parker, Admiral of the Fleet (d. 1811)
• John Ruxton, landowner and politician (d. 1785)
• Approximate date
• Richard Houston, mezzotint engraver (d. 1775)
• Alexander Montgomery, soldier and politician (d. 1785)

Deaths

• July 21 (hanged) – Walter Kennedy, pirate (b. c.1695)
• September 20 – Thomas Doggett, actor and benefactor (b. c.1670)
• Autumn – Godfrey Boate, judge (b. 1673)
• Denis Daly, judge (b. c.1638)
• Sir John Kirwan, merchant (b. 1650)

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