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See also:	Other events of 1784 List of years in Ireland

Events from the year1784 in Ireland.

• Monarch:George III

• 11 February –Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland chartered.
• 15 April – the first ascent of a manned balloon in the British Isles takes place with ahot air balloon atNavan^[1]
• TheOld Bushmills Distillery becomes an officially registered company
• The post ofPostmasters General of Ireland established
• William Conyngham begins installation of aplanned settlement onRutland Island, County Donegal
• NewChurch of IrelandSt. John's Cathedral, Cashel, completed
• The satiristJohn Williams is prosecuted for an attack on theDuke of Rutland's administration in theVolunteers' Journal and flees the country

• 12 May –James Sheridan Knowles, dramatist and actor (died1862).
• 20 September –Sir Richard John Griffith, 1st Baronet, geologist (died1878).

  Full date unknown

  • Richard Church, soldier, military officer and general in theGreek Army (died1873).
  • Thomas Barnwall Martin, soldier, landowner and politician (died1847).

• 3 April –John Gore, 1st Baron Annaly, politician and peer (born1718).
• 26 April –Nano Nagle, founder of thePresentation Sisters (born1718).
• 29 May –George Barret, Sr., artist (born c.1730).
• Thomas Cooley, architect (born 1740 in England).

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