1728 in Ireland

Events from the year 1728 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: George II

Events

• May 6 – Disenfranchising Act, an Act of the Parliament of Ireland, one of a series of penal laws, prohibiting all Roman Catholics from voting, receives royal assent.

Arts and literature

• Matthew Dubourg becomes Master and Composer of State Music of Dublin.

Births

• August 18 – James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont, statesman, first President of the Royal Irish Academy, president of the volunteer convention in Dublin, 1783 (d. 1799)
• November 10 – Oliver Goldsmith, writer, poet and physician (d. 1774)
• Nicholas Sheehy, Roman Catholic priest, opponent of the penal laws (executed 1766)

Deaths

• January 28 – Esther Johnson, friend of Jonathan Swift (b. 1681)
• April 28 – Rev. Caleb Threlkeld, botanist (b. 1676)

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