1786 in Ireland

none 1786 Events from the year 1786 in Ireland. Incumbent Monarch: George III Events 13 March – Construction begins in Dublin on the Four Courts Building, with the first stone laid by the British Viceroy for Ireland, the Duke of Rutland.John Carr John Carr (travel writer) The Stranger in Ireland, Or, A Tour in the Southern and Western Parts of that Country in the Year 1805 Lincoln & Gleason 1806 274 The Parliament of Ireland passes An Act for Promoting the Trade of Dublin, by rendering its Port and Harbour more commodious, creating the Corporation for Preserving and Improving the Port of Dublin (the "Ballast Board"), predecessor of the Commissioners of Irish Lights.A Brief History of Irish Lights http://www.commissionersofirishlights.com/cil/history.aspx Commissioners of Irish Lights 2012-08-16 The last reliably recorded wolf in Ireland is hunted down and killed near Mount Leinster, County Carlow, for killing sheep.http://www.ucd.ie/gsi/pdf/33-2/lupus.pdf PDF A geographical perspective on the decline and extermination of the Irish wolf canis lupus Kieran R. Hickey Irish Geography 33 2000 185–98 2011-02-25 Births 1 April – William Mulready, painter (died 1863). 7 May – John Cliffe Watts, military officer, architect in Australia (died 1873). 23 September – John England, first Catholic Bishop of Charleston, South Carolina (died 1842). 12 November – John Burke, genealogist (died 1848). Eaton Stannard Barrett, poet and author (died 1820). Deaths June – Gorges Edmond Howard, lawyer and writer (born 1715). October – John Handcock, soldier and politician (born 1755). 2 December – James O'Fallon, Roman Catholic Bishop of Elphin. "Fighting" George Robert FitzGerald, eccentric (hanged for murder). References 1786 Category:Years of the 18th century in Ireland Ireland Category:1780s in Ireland