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Events from the year1791 in Ireland.

• Monarch:George III

• September –Wolfe Tone publishesArgument on Behalf of the Catholics of Ireland.
• 14 October – the Northern Whig Club, a group of nineBelfastPresbyterians, meets with Wolfe Tone andThomas Russell and forms theSociety of United Irishmen to press forliberal non-denominationalparliamentary reform.
• 7 November –The Custom House inDublin opens for business, having been completed under the supervision ofJames Gandon.

• TheGrand Canal opens to a junction with theBarrow atAthy.^[1]
• The first bridge across theRiver Foyle atDerry, built by theAmerican Lemuel Cox in wood, is opened to vehicular traffic.^[2]

• 6 March –John MacHale,Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam,Irish Nationalist and writer (died1881).
• 17 August –Richard Lalor Sheil, politician, writer and orator (died1851).
• 14 December –Charles Wolfe, poet (died1823).

  Full date unknown

  • James Graham, soldier, commended for his gallantry during theBattle of Waterloo (died1845).

• 2 December –Henry Flood, statesman (born1732).

  Full date unknown

  • George Bryan, businessman, statesman and politician inPennsylvania (born1731).
  • Robert Carver, artist (b. c1730).

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