1785 in Ireland

none 1785 Events from the year 1785 in Ireland. Incumbent Monarch: George III Events 19 January – Richard Crosbie successfully flies in a hot air balloon from Ranelagh Gardens to Clontarf. He goes on to makes several unsuccessful attempts to cross the Irish Sea in a hydrogen-filled balloon. 10 May – a hot air balloon collides with a chimney in Tullamore, setting light to around 100 houses in the town centre.The Tullamore Balloon Fire - First Air Disaster in History Michael Byrne 2007-01-09 Tullamore History http://www.offalyhistory.com/articles/72/1/The-Tullamore-Balloon-Fire---First-Air-Disaster-in-History/Page1.html Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society 2012-08-21 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120326081536/https://www.offalyhistory.com/articles/72/1/The-Tullamore-Balloon-Fire---First-Air-Disaster-in-History/Page1.html 2012-03-26 The Duke of Rutland, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, with the support of William Pitt, successfully steers a liberal trade measure through the Parliament of Ireland, initially against the opposition of Henry Grattan and Henry Flood. However the Foxite opposition in the House of Commons of Great Britain so emasculates the measure with amendments that it is rejected in its new form in Ireland. Irish Academy established in Dublin. The Book of Ballymote is given to it. Belfast Academy established as a grammar school by Rev. Dr. James Crombie; by the 21st century it will be the oldest school in Belfast.Belfast Royal Academy: The First Century 1785-1885 A. T. Q Stewart A. T. Q. Stewart Stratford-on-Slaney in County Wicklow is founded by the Earl of Aldeborough as a cotton manufacturing centre. Dunsink Observatory established.Alexander Thom Alexander Thom (almanac editor) https://books.google.com/books?id=6V4NAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA258 Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory 7th 1850 258 2011-02-22 William Drennan publishes Letters of Orellana, an Irish Helot, to the seven northern counties not represented in the National Assembly of Delegates, held at Dublin, in October, 1784, for obtaining a more equal representation of the people in the Parliament of Ireland in Dublin (originally in the Belfast News-letter). Arts and literature Last annual Granard harp festival. Births March – Donat Henchy O'Brien, admiral in the British Royal Navy (died 1857). 17 March – Ellen Hutchins, botanist (died 1815). 24 June – Alexander Porter, United States Senator for Louisiana (died 1844). 7 December – William Francis Patrick Napier, soldier and military historian (died 1860). Approximate date – Edward Bransfield, master in the British Royal Navy (died 1852). Deaths 7 March – John Ruxton, landowner and politician (born 1721). 19 August – Michael Skerrett, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam. Thomas Leland, historian (born 1722). Alexander Montgomery, soldier and politician (born c.1721). References 1785 Category:Years of the 18th century in Ireland Ireland Category:1780s in Ireland