1770 in Ireland

none 1770 Events from the year 1770 in Ireland. Incumbent Monarch: George III Events 21 March – the College Historical Society, a debating society at Trinity College Dublin, founded by Edmund Burke, holds its first meetinghttp://www.trinitysocieties.ie/society/7/historical-society College Historical Society University of Dublin, Trinity College, Central Societies Committee 2009 2012-08-01 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120227031312/https://www.trinitysocieties.ie/society/7/historical-society 2012-02-27 when Burke's Club (founded 1747) merges with the Historical Club (1753). Lough Ree Yacht Club is founded as Athlone Yacht Club.Lough Ree Yacht Club Prepares to Celebrate 250 years https://afloat.ie/inland/inland-waterways/item/43405-lough-ree-yacht-club-prepares-to-celebrate-250-years afloat.ie 9 December 2024 en-gbLloyd’s Register of Yachts 1954 1 January 1954 Lloyd's Register 753 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Lloyd_s_Register_of_Yachts_1954/hRAEEQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Athlone+Yacht+Club+%221770%22&pg=PA753&printsec=frontcover 9 December 2024 en July – A civil action is brought against Owen Coffee, an attorney from Clonkeen, County Westmeath by Captain Andrew Armstrong of Castle Armstrong, King's County, for having employed Armstrong's runaway East Indian slave, Peter Kent, while he was still his property. Armstrong is awarded £100 damages. W. A. Hart "'Africans in Eighteenth-Century Ireland', Irish Historical Studies, Vol. 33, No. 129, 2002, at JSTOR Arts and literature John O'Keeffe's play The Giant's Causeway.Patten Eve Allen Nicholas That Island Never Found: Essays and Poems for Terence Brown 2007 Four Courts Press 978-1-84682-072-4 27 https://www.google.com/books/edition/That_Island_Never_Found/LU0fAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=John+O%27Keeffe+%221770%22+the+giant%27s+causeway&dq=John+O%27Keeffe+%221770%22+the+giant%27s+causeway&printsec=frontcover 9 December 2024 en Births 30 November – Andrew Blayney, 11th Baron Blayney, soldier, politician and peer (died 1832).Lodge John The Peerage of Ireland: Or, a Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom: With Engravings of Their Paternal Coats of Arms. Collected from Public Records, Authentic Manuscripts, Approved Historians, Well-attested Pedigrees, and Personal Information 1789 James Moore, 45, College-Green. 320,122 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Peerage_of_Ireland_Or_a_Genealogical/7F8UAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Andrew+Blayney+%2230+november+1770%22&pg=PA320&printsec=frontcover 9 December 2024 en Full date unknown William Reid Clanny, physician and inventor of the Clanny safety lamp for miners (died 1850). James Orr, rhyming weaver poet (died 1816). Deaths 12 January – James Stopford, 1st Earl of Courtown, politician (born 1700). 12 September – William Annesley, 1st Viscount Glerawly, politician (born 1710). Full date unknown Francis Lucas, naval officer and merchant trader (b. c1741). References 1770 Category:Years of the 18th century in Ireland Ireland Category:1770s in Ireland