1739 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1739 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: George II

Events

• 27 April – 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.
• July–August – wet summer, affecting the harvest and the cutting of turf. ^[1]
• 26 September – "Address of the Roman Catholics of Ireland" to George II of Great Britain requesting longer leases. ^[1]
• 6 October – 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 December –February 1740 – 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 – Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry, politician (d. 1821)
• 31 October – 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)

References

1. Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-821744-2.
2. Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 215–216. ISBN   0-7126-5616-2.
3. Watson, Samuel (1792). The Gentleman's and Citizen's Almanack, Compiled by Samuel Watson, For the Year of our Lord, 1792. Dublin: Printed for Samuel Watson, at No. 71, in Grafton-Street, Thomas Stewart, Bookseller, No. 1, King'-Inns-Quay, and George Draper, Junior, Bookseller, seventy-one Grafton-Street, 1792. p. 150.