1782 in Ireland

1782 in Ireland

Events

*21 June - British Parliament repeals the Declaratory Act 1720, thereby conceding Irish legislative independence from Great Britain.
*The British Prime Minister Lord Rockingham repeals Poyning's Law.
*Grattan's parliament founded in Dublin
*Irish judges were granted the same security of tenure as their English counterparts

Births

*1 April - James Daly, 1st Baron Dunsandle and Clanconal, politician (d.1847).
*26 July - John Field, composer and pianist (d.1837).
*25 September - Charles Maturin, clergyman, novelist and playwright (d.1824).
*29 September - Windham Quin, 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer (d.1850).
*11 November - Francis Blackburne, Lord Chancellor of Ireland (d.1867).
*23 November - James FitzGibbon, British soldier and hero of the War of 1812 (d.1863).

Full date unknown

*Sir John Burke, 2nd Baronet, soldier and politician (d.1847).
*James Hardiman, lawyer, librarian and historian (d.1855.

Deaths

*25 April - Anne Bonny, pirate in the Caribbean (b. c1698).


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