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1789 in Ireland
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1789
Events from the year 1789 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Monarch: George III
Events
26 March – The Abecedarian Society is established, for the purposes of "raising a fund for the relief of distressed school masters, school mistresses, and their families".Watson Samuel 1792 The Gentleman's and Citizen's Almanack, Compiled by Samuel Watson, For the Year of our Lord, 1792 Dublin Printed for Samuel Watson, at No. 71, in Grafton-Street, Thomas Stewart, Bookseller, No. 1, King'-Inns-Quay, and George Draper, Junior, Bookseller, seventy-one Grafton-Street, 1792 https://archive.org/details/gentlemanscitize00wats/page/104/mode/2up 80
29 March – 12 July: John Wesley makes his last visit to Ireland.Moody, T. W. A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History Oxford University Press 1989 978-0-19-821744-2 etal
20 June – following the death of James Hewitt, 1st Viscount Lifford, on 28 April, John FitzGibbon is appointed as Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
26 June – a Whig Club is established in Dublin.
28 August – the Hodson Baronetcy, of Holybrooke House in the County of Wicklow, is created in the Baronetage of Ireland for Robert Hodson, High Sheriff of Wicklow.Kidd, Charles Williamson, David Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage New York St. Martin's Press 1990
24 October – Royal Canal Company incorporated to construct a waterway from Dublin to the River Shannon.Ruth Delany Ian Bath Ireland's Royal Canal 1789-2009 Dublin Lilliput Press 2009 9781843511625
Mail coaches begin a scheduled service from Dublin to Belfast.
Arts and literature
Charlotte Brooke's Reliques of Irish Poetry is published in Dublin.
Thomas Campbell's Strictures on the Ecclesiastical and Literary History of Ireland, From the Most Ancient Times Till the Introduction of the Roman Ritual, and the Establishment of Papal Supremacy, by Henry II, King of England. Also, An Historical Sketch of the Constitution and Government of Ireland, from the Most Early Authenticated Period Down to the Year 1783 is published in Dublin.
Births
26 March – Edward Ffrench Bromhead, mathematician (died 1855).
24 September – Richard Henry Wilde, lawyer and Congressman in USA (died 1847).
3 October – Henry Pottinger, soldier and colonial administrator, first Governor of Hong Kong (died 1856).
6 October – Sir Michael O'Loghlen, 1st Baronet, judge, politician and Attorney-General for Ireland (died 1842).
Mary Fildes, née Pritchard, political activist (died 1876 in England).
Deaths
9 October – James Hamilton, 8th Earl of Abercorn, politician (born 1712).
Full date unknown
Frances Greville, poet (b. c1724).
Barry St. Leger, British colonel during the American Revolutionary War (b. c1733).
References
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