John Armstrong was an Irish politician.
Armstrong was born in County Tipperary and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. [1] He was MP for Fore in County Westmeath from 1769 to 1776; and for Kilmallock in County Limerick from 1783 to 1792. [2]
Sir John Pentland Mahaffy, was an Irish classicist and polymathic scholar who served as the 34th Provost of Trinity College Dublin from 1914 to 1919.
Trinity College Dublin, officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, is the sole constituent college of the University of Dublin, Ireland. Founded in early 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I who issued a royal charter, it is Ireland's oldest university and was modelled after the collegiate universities of both Oxford and Cambridge. The terms "Trinity College" and "University of Dublin" are synonymous for administrative purposes, as only one such college was ever established.
John Mortimer Brinkley was the first Royal Astronomer of Ireland and later Bishop of Cloyne. He was President of the Royal Irish Academy (1822–35), President of the Royal Astronomical Society (1831–33). He was awarded the Cunningham Medal in 1818, and the Copley Medal in 1824.
The College Historical Society (CHS) – popularly referred to as The Hist – is a debating society at Trinity College Dublin. It was established within the college in 1770 and was inspired by the club formed by the philosopher Edmund Burke during his own time in Trinity in 1747. It holds the Guinness World Record as the "world's oldest student society".
The Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland or the Annals of the Four Masters are chronicles of medieval Irish history. The entries span from the Deluge, dated as 2,242 years after creation to AD 1616.
Robert Fitzroy 'Roy' Foster, publishing as R. F. Foster, is an Irish historian and academic. He was the Carroll Professor of Irish History from 1991 until 2016 at Hertford College, Oxford.
John Ward Armstrong was an Irish Anglican bishop who served as Archbishop of Armagh from 1980 to 1986.
William Clere Leonard Brendan Parsons, 7th Earl of RosseHonFTCD, is an Anglo-Irish peer. He is also 10th Baronet Parsons, of Birr Castle.
Events from the year 1770 in Ireland.
James Armstrong, D.D. (1780–1839), was an Irish Unitarian minister.
Hugh Hamilton was a mathematician, natural philosopher (scientist) and professor at Trinity College Dublin, and later a Church of Ireland bishop, Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh and then Bishop of Ossory.
Timothy Trevor West was an Irish mathematician, academic and politician.
Richard Armstrong was an Irish Liberal politician, and barrister.
Dublin University Fencing Club (DUFC) is the fencing club of Trinity College Dublin, located in Dublin, Ireland. The club caters for foil, épée and sabre. Its members are students, alumni and staff from Trinity College with a small amount of visiting fencers from other clubs.
John Armstrong (1792–1856) was a 19th-century Anglican priest in Ireland.
John Smyth was an Anglican Archdeacon in Ireland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
Richard Archdall was an Irish politician in the last decade of the 19th Century and the first decade of the 20th.
Rachel Moss is an Irish art historian and professor specialising in medieval art, with a particular interest in Insular art, medieval Irish Gospel books and monastic history. She is the current head of the Department of the History of Art at Trinity College Dublin, where she became a fellow in 2022.
William Henry Burton (1739–1818) was an Irish politician.
Thomas Dawson was an Irish politician.