1739 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1739 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- 27 April â the trial of Henry Barry, 4th Baron Barry of Santry, before the Irish House of Lords for the drunken murder of a tavern servant in Palmerstown the previous summer opens; he is convicted but later pardoned.
- JulyâAugust â wet summer, affecting the harvest and the cutting of turf.[1]
- 26 September â "Address of the Roman Catholics of Ireland" to George II of Great Britain requesting longer leases.[1]
- 6 October â the title Earl of Bessborough is created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of Brabazon Ponsonby, 2nd Viscount Duncannon, chief commissioner of revenue.[1]
- 27 DecemberâFebruary 1740 â the 'Great Frost': unusually harsh winter in which the River Liffey froze over, and citizens "walked and recreated themselves upon the ice".[2][3]
Births
- 27 September â Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry, politician (d. 1821)
- 31 October â James Gordon, merchant, soldier, and politician in America (d. 1810)
Full date unknown
- Judge Fulton, judge, surveyor, politician, and founder of the village of Bass River, Nova Scotia (d. 1826)
- Hugh Kelly, dramatist and poet (d. 1777)
- Hugh O'Reilly, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher (d. 1801)
Deaths
- Charles Jervas, painter, translator and art collector (b. c.1675)