1718 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1718 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- May 2 – the scholar William Nicolson is appointed Bishop of Derry.[1]
- May 10 – the Roman Catholic Bishopric of Emly is united with the Archbishopric of Cashel.
- July–August – the first ships carrying Scotch-Irish emigrants from Ulster to North America arrive in Boston, Massachusetts.[2]
- October 28 – Ashkenazi Jews lease the site for Ballybough Cemetery in Fairview, Dublin, Ireland's first Jewish cemetery.[3]
- Jervis Street Hospital, is founded by six surgeons as the Charitable Infirmary in Cook Street, the first public voluntary hospital in the British Isles.[4][5]
Births
- March 2 – John Gore, 1st Baron Annaly, politician and peer (d. 1784)
- Nano Nagle, founder of the Presentation Sisters (d. 1784)
Deaths
- October 24 – Thomas Parnell, clergyman and poet (b. 1679)
- 1716 or 1718 – Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh, historian (b. 1629)