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1740 in Ireland
Summary
Events from the year
1740 in Ireland
.
←
1739
1738
1737
1736
1735
1740
in
Ireland
→
1741
1742
1743
1744
1745
Centuries:
16th
17th
18th
19th
20th
Decades:
1720s
1730s
1740s
1750s
1760s
See also:
Other events of 1740
List of years in Ireland
Incumbent
edit
Monarch
:
George II
Events
edit
January–February: the 'Great Frost' continues: unusually harsh winter
[1]
followed by a Spring drought.
April – citizens of
Drogheda
prevent food being exported from their town to Scotland.
[2]
31 May
–
2 June
: bread riots in Dublin.
[3]
June–December – exceptionally cold weather, leading to the
Great Irish Famine (1740–1741)
.
[3]
First
steam engine
installed in Ireland, for pumping at Doonane Colliery,
Shrule
.
[3]
A
Dublin
–
Belfast
stage coach
service runs.
[4]
Conolly's Folly
in the grounds of
Castletown House
, County Kildare, commissioned by Katherine Conolly from architect
Richard Cassels
, is erected to provide employment for hundreds of the poor of
Celbridge
during the Famine.
Susanna Drury
shows her
gouache
drawings of the
Giant's Causeway
at the
Dublin Society
's first exhibition, bringing the site to wider attention.
The original
Ballymena
Castle burns down.
Births
edit
James Napper Tandy
7 April
–
Armar Lowry-Corry, 1st Earl Belmore
, politician and
High Sheriff
(d.
1802
)
25 September
–
Hercules Mulligan
, tailor and spy during the American Revolution (d. 1825 in
New York
)
22 October
–
Philip Francis
,
politician
and pamphleteer (d.
1818
)
Full date unknown
Richard Barrett
, poet and
United Irishman
(d.
1818
)
John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel
, politician and
Irish Chancellor of the Exchequer
(d.
1828
)
Edmund Garvey
, painter (d.
1813
)
Nathaniel Grogan
, painter (d.
1807
)
James Napper Tandy
, rebel leader (d. 1803 in
Bordeaux
)
Deaths
edit
13 May
–
Thomas Milles
,
Church of Ireland
Bishop of Waterford and Lismore
since
1708
(b.
1671 in England
)
c. June –
Bernard O'Gara
,
Roman Catholic
Archbishop of Tuam
1 December
–
John Abernethy
,
Presbyterian
minister (b.
1680
)
References
edit
^
Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992).
The Chronology of British History
. London: Century Ltd. pp. 215–216.
ISBN
0-7126-5616-2
.
^
Dickson, David (1997).
Arctic Ireland
. Belfast: White Row Press.
ISBN
1870132858
.
^
a
b
c
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
.
^
Connolly, Sean (2008).
Divided Kingdom: Ireland 1630–1800
. Oxford University Press. p. 17.
ISBN
978-0-19-954347-2
.