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Events from the year1740 in Ireland.

Incumbent

Monarch:George II

Events

January–February: the 'Great Frost' continues: unusually harsh winter^[1] followed by a Spring drought.
April – citizens ofDrogheda 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 theGreat Irish Famine (1740–1741).^[3]
Firststeam engine installed in Ireland, for pumping at Doonane Colliery,Shrule.^[3]
ADublin–Belfast stage coach service runs.^[4]
Conolly's Folly in the grounds ofCastletown House, County Kildare, commissioned by Katherine Conolly from architectRichard Cassels, is erected to provide employment for hundreds of the poor ofCelbridge during the Famine.
Susanna Drury shows hergouache drawings of theGiant's Causeway at theDublin Society's first exhibition, bringing the site to wider attention.
The originalBallymena Castle burns down.

Births

James Napper Tandy

7 April –Armar Lowry-Corry, 1st Earl Belmore, politician andHigh Sheriff (d.1802)
25 September –Hercules Mulligan, tailor and spy during the American Revolution (d. 1825 inNew York)
22 October –Philip Francis,politician and pamphleteer (d.1818)

Full date unknown
- Richard Barrett, poet andUnited Irishman (d.1818)
- John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel, politician andIrish Chancellor of the Exchequer (d.1828)
- Edmund Garvey, painter (d.1813)
- Nathaniel Grogan, painter (d.1807)
- James Napper Tandy, rebel leader (d. 1803 inBordeaux)

Deaths

13 May –Thomas Milles,Church of Ireland Bishop of Waterford and Lismore since1708 (b.1671 in England)
c. June –Bernard O'Gara,Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam
1 December –John Abernethy,Presbyterian minister (b.1680)

References

^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 ^cMoody, 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.

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