1726 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1726 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: George I

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

Eyre Coote

• 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)

References

1. Nelson, E. Charles (1978). "The Publication Date of the First Irish Flora, Caleb Threlkeld's Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum, 1726". Glasra. 2: 37–42. Archived from the original on 2013-06-02. Retrieved 2012-10-03.