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Events from the year1790 in Ireland.

• Monarch:George III

• 15 March –The Sick and Indigent Roomkeepers' Society is established in Dublin; by the 21st century this will be the city's oldest surviving charity.^[1]
• May – construction begins on theRoyal Canal at Cross Guns Bridge inPhibsborough, Dublin.^[2]
• Armagh Observatory, founded byRichard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby,Archbishop of Armagh, begins to function.

• Emo Court, nearEmo, County Laois, is designed byJames Gandon for John Dawson, 1stEarl of Portarlington.

• 1 January –George Petrie, painter, musician, antiquary and archaeologist (died1866).
• 15 April –Theobald Jones, British Royal Navy officer, lichenologist and Unionist politician (died1868).
• June –Arthur Jacob,ophthalmologist (died1874).
• 10 October – FatherTheobald Mathew,temperance reformer (died1856).
• Alexander Pearce, transported convict and cannibal (executed1824 in Van Diemen's Land).

• Patrick Browne, physician and botanist (born1720).

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