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1781 in Ireland
Events from the year
1781 in Ireland
.
Incumbent
Monarch
:
George III
Events
8 August â construction of
The Custom House
,
Dublin
, to the design of
James Gandon
, begins.
Arts and literature
First annual
Granard
harp
festival.
Births
6 February âÂÂ
John Keane, 1st Baron Keane
,
British Army
Lieutenant-General
(died
1844
).
25 December? âÂÂ
Sydney Owenson
, novelist (died 1859).
William Benjamin Sarsfield Taylor
, painter (died 1850).
Deaths
26 September âÂÂ
Andrew Lewis
, pioneer and surveyor, soldier from
Virginia
(born
1720
).
References