1718 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1718 in Ireland.

Events

• May 2 - The scholar William Nicolson is appointed Bishop of Derry.^[1]
• May 10 - The Roman Catholic Bishopric of Emly is united with the Archbishopric of Cashel.
• July–August - The first ships carrying Scotch-Irish emigrants from Ulster to North America arrive in Boston, Massachusetts.^[2]
• October 28 - Ashkenazi Jews lease the site for Ballybough Cemetery in Fairview, Dublin, Ireland's first Jewish cemetery.^[3]
• Jervis Street Hospital, Dublin, is founded by six surgeons as the Charitable Infirmary in Cook Street, the first public voluntary hospital in the British Isles.^[4][5]

Births

Nano Nagle

• March 2 - John Gore, 1st Baron Annaly, politician and peer (d. 1784)
• Nano Nagle, founder of the Presentation Sisters (d. 1784)

Deaths

• October 24 - Thomas Parnell, clergyman and poet (b. 1679)
• 1716 or 1718 - Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh, historian (b. 1629)

References

1. Hayton, D. W. (2004). "Nicolson, William (1655–1727)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/20186. Retrieved 2012-08-22. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
2. "The arrival of "five ships" in August, 1718". Lynx2Ulster. Retrieved 2012-10-11.
3. "History of the Jewish Cemetery". Fairview-Marino.com. Retrieved 2013-02-25.
4. Widdess, J. D. H. (1968). The Charitable Infirmary, Jervis Street, Dublin, 1718-1968. Dublin.
5. O'Brien, Eoin, ed. (1987). The Charitable Infirmary, Jervis Street, 1718-1987: a farewell tribute. Monkstown: Anniversary Press. ISBN 1870940016.