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Events from the year1795 in Ireland.

• Monarch:George III

• 5 June –the Royal College of St Patrick established atMaynooth by Act ofGrattan's Parliament to provide university-level education forRoman Catholic ecclesiastical and lay students.
• 15 September – a group of workers felling timber on the estate ofLord Carysfort inCounty Wicklow discover gold, leading to theWicklow gold rush.^[1][2][3]
• 21 September
  • Battle of the Diamond, a violent confrontation between the CatholicDefenders and Protestants includingPeep o' Day Boys, Orange Boys and local tenant farmers, takes place nearLoughgall,County Armagh.
  • The LoyalOrange Institution (Orange Order) is formed in County Armagh following the Battle of the Diamond.^[4]
• William Pitt,Prime Minister of Great Britain, replaces the popular and liberalLord Lieutenant of Ireland,Lord Fitzwilliam, withEarl Camden,^[5] an opponent ofCatholic emancipation whose arrival inDublin is greeted with riots.
• Society of the United Irishmen members includingTheobald Wolfe Tone andHenry Joy McCracken meet atCavehill to the north ofBelfast.
• The town ofLouisburgh, County Mayo, is established by Lord Altamount of Westport to house Catholic refugees fleeing sectarian conflict in the north of Ireland.
• The firstWexford bridge across theRiver Slaney in the town ofWexford, built by theAmerican Lemuel Cox in wood, is completed.^[6]
• National Botanic Gardens opened by theRoyal Dublin Society.

• William Drennan writes the balladErin.^[7]

• 5 May –James Haughton, social reformer and temperance activist (died1873).
• 20 May –Francis Murphy, firstRoman Catholicbishop ofAdelaide,South Australia (died1858).
• 18 July –Hugh Boyd M‘Neile,Anglican churchman (died1879).
• 16 November –Lord Kingsborough, antiquarian (died1837).
• Full date unknown –George Darley, poet, novelist and critic (died1846).

• 14 February –Thomas Taylour, 1st Earl of Bective, peer (born1724).
• March –Thomas Conway, soldier (born1735), in England.
• 22 April –Tadhg Gaelach Ó Súilleabháin, poet (born1715).
• 11 September –Thomas Browne, 4th Viscount Kenmare, landowner and politician (born1726).

• 1795 in Ireland
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