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See also:	Other events of 1779 List of years in Ireland

Events from the year1779 in Ireland.

• Monarch:George III

• ArmedVolunteers demonstrate inDublin forfree trade between Ireland and England.^[1] This demand for amendment of theNavigation Acts is quickly granted by the British government.^[2]
• Grand Canal opens to traffic betweenDublin andSallins.^[3]
• Spike Island, County Cork, is acquired by the government to form part of the defences ofCork Harbour.
• NewChurch of IrelandChrist Church Cathedral, Waterford, completed.

• 22 January –Charles O'Neill, 1st Earl O'Neill, landowner and politician (died1841).
• February –Richard Carmichael,surgeon (died1849).
• 30 March –Antoine Ó Raifteiri, "last of the wanderingbards" (died1835).
• 16 April –Patrick Kelly,Roman CatholicBishop of Waterford and Lismore (died1829).
• 28 May –Thomas Moore, poet, singer, songwriter and entertainer (died1852).
• 17 August –William Corbet, member of theUnited Irishmen, soldier, Commander-in-Chief of French forces in Greece (died1842).
• 3 November –Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough,BritishField Marshal (died1869).
• Arthur Brooke Faulkner,physician and writer (died1845).
• John Oldham, mechanical engineer (died1840).
• Thomas Ussher,Royal Navy officer (died1848).
• Possible date –Julia Glover née Betterton, comic actress (died1850).

• April –Anthony Foster, lawyer and politician (born1705).
• 18 October –Patrick d'Arcy, mathematical physicist and soldier in France (born1725).
• 10 December –Thomas Fortescue, politician (born1744).
• Risteárd Buidhe Kirwan, soldier and duellist (died1708).
• Thomas Newburgh, poet (born c.1695).
• Thomas Tennison, lawyer and politician (born1707).

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