1767 in Ireland

Events from the year 1767 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: George III

Events

• 20 July – Arthur Chichester, 5th Earl of Donegall, grants new leases for most of his property holdings in Belfast, obliging tenants to redevelop.
• 19 August – Viscount Townshend appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (sworn 14 October).
• The titles Earl of Howth and Viscount St Lawrence are created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of Thomas St Lawrence, 15th Baron Howth.
• A Magdalen Asylum was established by Lady Arabella Denny in Leeson Street, for Protestant women.

Arts and literature

• Hugh Kelly's novel Memoirs of a Magdalen is published.
• John O'Keeffe's first play, The She Gallant, is performed at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin.

Births

• 1 January – Maria Edgeworth, novelist (died 1849).
• 14 March – Charles Arbuthnot, Tory politician and member of the Privy Council (died 1850).
• 19 May – Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty, diplomat, Irish, and later British, MP (died 1837).
• 31 August – Henry Joy McCracken, cotton manufacturer and industrialist, Presbyterian and a founding member of the Society of the United Irishmen (died 1798).
• 21 November – Thomas Russell, co-founder and leader of the United Irishmen, executed for his part in Robert Emmet's rebellion (died 1803).
• ;Full date unknown
• :*John Moore, participant in Irish Rebellion of 1798, proclaimed President of the Government of the Province of Connaught (died 1799).

Deaths

• 30 November – John Cole, 1st Baron Mountflorence, politician (born 1709).

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