1775 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1775 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- Henry Flood accepts a seat on the Privy Council of Ireland and becomes vice-treasurer.[1]
- Henry Grattan enters the Parliament of Ireland and becomes leader of the "patriot party".[1]
- Approximate date – Dark Hedges planted.
- November – the 90ft tall round tower adjoining the Church of St Michael le Pole in Dublin is damaged in "the great storm of 1775", and subsequently demolished for safety in 1778.[2]
Arts and literature
- 17 January – Richard Brinsley Sheridan's first play, the comedy of manners The Rivals, is premiered at the Covent Garden Theatre, London.
- Robert Jephson's tragedy Braganza is first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London.
Births
- 3 March – Henry Prittie, 2nd Baron Dunalley, politician (died 1854).
- 25 April – William Warren Baldwin, doctor, businessman, lawyer, judge, architect and political figure in Upper Canada (died 1844).
- 6 August – Daniel O'Connell, politician, campaigner for Catholic emancipation and Repeal of the Union (died 1847).
- 30 September – Robert Adrain, scientist and mathematician in America (died 1843).
- Full date unknown
- Bernard McMahon, horticulturalist in the United States (died 1816).
- William Thompson, political and philosophical writer and social reformer (died 1833).
Deaths
- 27 April – John Rutty, Quaker physician and naturalist (born c. 1697 in England).
- 31 December – Richard Montgomery, soldier, major general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War (born 1738).
- Probable date – Elizabeth Aldworth, freemason (born 1693/5).