1728 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1728 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- May 6 â Disenfranchising Act, an Act of the Parliament of Ireland, one of a series of penal laws, prohibiting all Roman Catholics from voting, receives royal assent.[1]
Arts and literature
- Matthew Dubourg becomes Master and Composer of State Music of Dublin.
Births
- August 18 â James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont, statesman, first President of the Royal Irish Academy, president of the volunteer convention in Dublin, 1783 (d. 1799)
- November 10 â Oliver Goldsmith, writer, poet and physician (d. 1774)[2][3]
- Nicholas Sheehy, Roman Catholic priest, opponent of the penal laws (executed 1766)
Deaths
- January 28 â Esther Johnson, friend of Jonathan Swift (b. 1681)
- April 28 â Rev. Caleb Threlkeld, botanist (b. 1676)