1749 in Ireland

Events from the year 1749 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: George II

Events

• 3 June – radical apothecary Charles Lucas begins publication of The Censor, or Citizens' Journal in Dublin.
• August–September – Charles Wesley makes his second visit to Ireland.
• 16 October – the Irish House of Commons threatens Charles Lucas with prosecution and he is forced to flee.
• James Simon's An essay towards an historical account of Irish coins is published in Dublin.

Births

• 22 January – John Barclay, soldier, politician, jurist and businessman in America (died 1824)
• July – Jocelyn Deane, politician (died 1780)
• Robert Barber, quartermaster on HMS Adventure during the second voyage of James Cook (died 1783)
• Thomas Burke, artist (died 1815)
• William Richardson, landowner and politician (died 1822)
• Edward Smyth, sculptor (died 1812)
• James Whitelaw, historian, writer, statistician and philanthropist (died 1813)
• Approximate date – Brian Merriman, Irish language poet (died 1805)

Deaths

• 3 January – John Ussher, politician (born 1703)
• 22 January – Matthew Concanen, writer, poet and lawyer (born 1701)
• 20 February (hanged at Tyburn) – Usher Gahagan, classical scholar.
• May – Samuel Boyse, poet (born 1702/3)
• 21 September – Sir John Bingham, 5th Baronet, politician (born 1690)
• Approximate date – Eamonn Laidir Ó Flaithbertaigh, Jacobite.

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