1784 in Ireland

1784 in Ireland

Events

*The Old Bushmills Distillery became an officially registered company

Births

*12 May - James Sheridan Knowles, dramatist and actor (d.1862).
*20 September - Sir Richard John Griffith, 1st Baronet, geologist (d.1878).

Full date unknown

*Richard Church, soldier, military officer and general in the Greek Army (d.1873).
*Thomas Barnwall Martin, soldier, landowner and politician (d.1847).
*Antoine Ó Raifteiri, Irish language poet (d.1835).

Deaths

*3 April - John Gore, 1st Baron Annaly, politician and peer (b.1718).
*26 April - Nano Nagle, founder of the Presentation Sisters (b.1718).
*29 May - George Barret, Sr., artist (b. c1730).


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