1729 in Ireland

none 1729 Events from the year 1729 in Ireland. Incumbent Monarch: George II Events February 3 – the foundation stone is laid for the new Irish Houses of Parliament on College Green in Dublin, designed by Edward Lovett Pearce MP as the world's first purpose-built bicameral legislative building. Completion of Castletown House, Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland's first Palladian mansion, designed by Alessandro Galilei and Edward Lovett Pearce for William Conolly, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons.About Castletown House http://www.castletownhouse.ie/About/ Office of Public Works 2012-03-20 https://web.archive.org/web/20120317051045/http://www.castletownhouse.ie/About/ 2012-03-17 dead Arts and literature Jonathan Swift publishes A Modest Proposal. Births thumb|150px|Edmund Burke January 12 – Edmund Burke, statesman (d. 1797) September 21 – Philip Embury, Methodist (d. 1775) November 10 – Martin Glynn, Catholic priest (executed 1794) December 8 – James Bernard, politician (d. 1790). Hercules Langrishe, politician (d. 1811) Henry Mossop, actor (d. 1773?) Arthur O'Leary, Franciscan (d. 1802) Mary Woffington, Irish socialite (d. 1811)Highfill Philip H. Burnim Kalman A. Langhans Edward A. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 1993 Southern Illinois University Press Carbondale 978-0-8093-1803-2 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015026964307&seq=237 en 16 225 Deaths thumb|150px|Richard Steele March 30 – Jonathan Smedley, Dean of Clogher and Whig satirist (b. 1671) May 8 – William King, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin and author (b. 1650) September 1 – Richard Steele, writer and politician, co-founder of The Spectator magazine (b. 1672) Full date unknown Sir Edward Crofton, 2nd Baronet, of The Mote, landowner and politician (b. c. 1662) Aogán Ó Rathaille, Irish language poet (b. c. 1675) References 1729 Category:Years of the 18th century in Ireland Ireland Category:1720s in Ireland