1741 in Ireland

Events from the year 1741 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: George II

Events

• January–April – Great Irish Famine (1740–1741) at its height.
• June–August – hot summer. The harvest is improved, but disease encouraged.
• 2 October – the Bull's Head Musical Society opens a Music Hall in Fishamble Street, Dublin.
• 18 November – the composer George Frideric Handel arrives in Dublin to give a series of concerts.
• Commencement of construction of obelisk and other works on Killiney Hill (overlooking Dublin Bay) by John Mapas to relieve poverty.
• Completion of rebuilding of Powerscourt House in County Wicklow by the architect Richard Cassels.

Births

• 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

• 16 March – Thomas FitzMaurice, 1st Earl of Kerry, politician (born 1668).
• John Ussher, soldier and politician (born 1682).

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