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Events from the year1762 in Ireland.

• Monarch:George III

• February –Roman Catholic nobility and gentry offer support to KingGeorge III in theSeven Years' War in theIberian Peninsula.^[1]
• 20 March – a Frenchprivateer takes six ships offYoughal.^[2]
• 30 April – acts grant security toProtestants who have acquired property from Catholics.^[1]
• Old St. Thomas's Church, Dublin, in Marlborough Street, is completed.
• Watt distillery inDerry is established; it will produceTyrconnell (whiskey).

• 14 May –Charles Macklin'sThe True-Born Irishman is first performed at theCrow Street Theatre inDublin.^[1]
• Approximate date –James Barry paintsBaptism of the King of Cashel.

• 11 January –Andrew Cherry, playwright, songwriter, actor and theatrical manager (died1812 in Wales).
• 24 February –Gideon Ouseley,Methodism's 'apostle to the Irish' (died1839).
• 20 May –Eyre Coote,British Army officer (died 1832).
• 1 June –Edmund Ignatius Rice,Roman Catholic missionary and educationalist, founder of theCongregation of Christian Brothers and thePresentation Brothers (died1844).
• 12 June –Chambré Brabazon Ponsonby-Barker, politician (died1834).
• 25 December –Michael Kelly, actor, singer and composer (died1826).
• Henry Browne Hayes, sheriff and abductor (died1832).
• Approximate date –John Chetwode Eustace, Roman Catholic priest and antiquary (died 1815 in Italy).

• 20 February –Chambré Brabazon Ponsonby, politician (born c.1720).
• 20 March –James Cuffe, landowner (born1707).
• 22 March –Courthorpe Clayton, soldier and courtier.
• September
  • Francesco Geminiani, violinist and composer (born 1687 in Italy).
  • Seán Ó Murchadha, poet.^[1]
• 16 November –John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork, writer (born1707).
• 30 December –Robert Blakeney, politician (born c.1724).
• Macnamara Morgan, playwright and barrister (born c.1720).
• Charles Smith, topographer andapothecary (born1715).

• 1762 in Ireland
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• Years of the 18th century in Ireland
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