1734 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1734 in Ireland.

Events

• April 29
  • Act prohibits converts from Roman Catholicism to the Church of Ireland from educating their children in the old religion or from becoming Justices of Peace.^[1]
  • Act for relief of creditors of failed banks.^[1]
• May 19 - George Berkeley is consecrated as Church of Ireland Bishop of Cloyne.^[1]
• August 17 - Mercer's Hospital for the sick and poor in Dublin is founded under a bequest of Mary Mercer.^[1]

Arts and literature

• March - Upper gallery of the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin collapses for the third time.
• November - George Faulkner begins publication of an edition of Jonathan Swift's Works in Dublin^[1] with a corrected text.

Births

• July 25 - Arthur Gore, 2nd Earl of Arran, politician (d. 1809)
• Boetius Egan, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam (d. 1798)

Deaths

• September 28 - James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn (b. c.1661)
• Richard Cantillon, economic theorist (b. 1680)

References

1. Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.