1740 in Ireland

none 1740 Events from the year 1740 in Ireland. Incumbent Monarch: George II Events January–February: the 'Great Frost' continues: unusually harsh winterPalmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 215–216 0-7126-5616-2 followed by a Spring drought. April – citizens of Drogheda prevent food being exported from their town to Scotland.David Dickson Arctic Ireland White Row Press Belfast 1997 1870132858 31 May – 2 June: bread riots in Dublin.Moody, T. W. A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History Oxford University Press 1989 978-0-19-821744-2 etal June–December – exceptionally cold weather, leading to the Great Irish Famine (1740–1741). First steam engine installed in Ireland, for pumping at Doonane Colliery, Shrule. A Dublin–Belfast stage coach service runs.Connolly Sean Divided Kingdom: Ireland 1630–1800 Oxford University Press 2008 17 978-0-19-954347-2 https://books.google.com/books?id=gGol2H-zE-4C&q=ireland+first+%22Mail+coach%22+dublin+belfast+industrial+history&pg=PA363 Conolly's Folly in the grounds of Castletown House, County Kildare, commissioned by Katherine Conolly from architect Richard Cassels, is erected to provide employment for hundreds of the poor of Celbridge during the Famine. Susanna Drury shows her gouache drawings of the Giant's Causeway at the Dublin Society's first exhibition, bringing the site to wider attention. The original Ballymena Castle burns down. Births thumb|150px|James Napper Tandy 7 April – Armar Lowry-Corry, 1st Earl Belmore, politician and High Sheriff (d. 1802) 25 September – Hercules Mulligan, tailor and spy during the American Revolution (d. 1825 in New York) 22 October – Philip Francis, politician and pamphleteer (d. 1818) Full date unknown Richard Barrett, poet and United Irishman (d. 1818) John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel, politician and Irish Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 1828) Edmund Garvey, painter (d. 1813) Nathaniel Grogan, painter (d. 1807) James Napper Tandy, rebel leader (d. 1803 in Bordeaux) Deaths 13 May – Thomas Milles, Church of Ireland Bishop of Waterford and Lismore since 1708 (b. 1671 in England) c. June – Bernard O'Gara, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam 1 December – John Abernethy, Presbyterian minister (b. 1680) References 1740