1726 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1726 in Ireland.
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Events
- October 27 – Rev. Dr. Caleb Threlkeld publishes Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum .....Dispositarum sive Commentatio de Plantis Indigenis praesertim Dublinensibus instituta in Dublin, the first flora of Ireland.[1]
Arts and literature
- October 26 – Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is published in London
Births
- April – Thomas Browne, 4th Viscount Kenmare, landowner and politician (d. 1795)
- May 20 – John Browne, 1st Baron Kilmaine, politician (d. 1794)
- October 15 – Isaac Barré, soldier and politician (d. 1802)
- Full date unknown – Dorcas Blackwood, 1st Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye, née Stevenson (d. 1807)
- Approximate date – Eyre Coote, East India Company military officer (d. 1783)
Deaths
- May 20 – Nicholas Brady, Anglican divine and poet (b. 1659)
- Sean na Sagart, né John O'Mullowny, priest hunter and murderer under the penal laws, killed (b. c1690)
- Bryan Townsend, Royal Navy officer and politician (b. c1660)