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1789 in Ireland
Events from the year
1789 in Ireland
.
Incumbent
Monarch
:
George III
Events
26 March â The Abecedarian Society is established, for the purposes of "raising a fund for the relief of distressed school masters, school mistresses, and their families".
29 March â 12 July:
John Wesley
makes his last visit to Ireland.
20 June â following the death of
James Hewitt, 1st Viscount Lifford
, on 28 April,
John FitzGibbon
is appointed as
Lord Chancellor of Ireland
.
26 June â a
Whig
Club is established in
Dublin
.
28 August â the
Hodson Baronetcy
, of Holybrooke House in the County of
Wicklow
, is created in the
Baronetage of Ireland
for Robert Hodson,
High Sheriff of Wicklow
.
24 October âÂÂ
Royal Canal
Company incorporated to construct a waterway from Dublin to the
River Shannon
.
Mail coach
es begin a scheduled service from Dublin to
Belfast
.
Arts and literature
Charlotte Brooke
's
Reliques of Irish Poetry
is published in Dublin.
Thomas Campbell
's
Strictures on the Ecclesiastical and Literary History of Ireland, From the Most Ancient Times Till the Introduction of the Roman Ritual, and the Establishment of Papal Supremacy, by Henry II, King of England. Also, An Historical Sketch of the Constitution and Government of Ireland, from the Most Early Authenticated Period Down to the Year 1783
is published in Dublin.
Births
26 March âÂÂ
Edward Ffrench Bromhead
,
mathematician
(died
1855
).
24 September âÂÂ
Richard Henry Wilde
, lawyer and Congressman in USA (died
1847
).
3 October âÂÂ
Henry Pottinger
, soldier and colonial administrator, first
Governor of Hong Kong
(died
1856
).
6 October âÂÂ
Sir Michael O'Loghlen, 1st Baronet
, judge, politician and
Attorney-General for Ireland
(died
1842
).
Mary Fildes
, née Pritchard, political activist (died 1876 in England).
Deaths
9 October âÂÂ
James Hamilton, 8th Earl of Abercorn
, politician (born
1712
).
;Full date unknown
:*
Frances Greville
, poet (b. c1724).
:*
Barry St. Leger
,
British
colonel during the
American Revolutionary War
(b. c1733).
References