1724 in Ireland

• Monarch: George I

• March – Jonathan Swift publishes the first of the Drapier's Letters (A Letter To the Shop-Keepers, Tradesmen, Farmers, and Common-People of Ireland, Concerning the Brass Half-Pence Coined by Mr. Woods).{{cite book|last=Scott|first=Temple|title=The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, vol. VI: The Drapier's Letters|chapter=Letter 1, Introductory Note|location=London: George Bell and Sons|year=1903}}
• 22 May – a total solar eclipse crosses Ireland around 6:30 p.m.
• John Neal, an instrument-maker and music publisher based in Christ Church Yard, Dublin, publishes the earliest printed collection of Irish music, which includes pieces by Irish harpist Turlough O'Carolan.{{sfn|Bardon|2015|page=14}}

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• March 24 – Richard Hamilton, 4th Viscount Boyne, politician (d. 1789)
• October 20 – Thomas Taylour, 1st Earl of Bective, politician (d. 1795)
• Samuel Derrick, hack writer (d. 1769 in England)
• John Hely, later Hely-Hutchinson, lawyer and statesman (d. 1794)
• John Pomeroy, British Army officer (d. 1790)
• Frances Sheridan, novelist and playwright (d. 1766)
• 1724 or 1725 – Arthur Guinness, brewer (d. 1803)
• Approximate date
• Robert Blakeney, politician (d. 1762)
• Frances Greville née Macartney, poet (d. 1789)
• Samuel Clossy anatomist (d. [https://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/life-society/science-technology/irish-scientists/clossy-samuel/ August 22], 1786 in Dublin, Ireland)

• February 10 or 1723 – Henry Colley, politician (b. c.1685)
• November – Liam an Dúna Mac Cairteáin, poet and soldier (b. 1668)
• John Barnwell, colonist in the Province of South Carolina (b. 1671)
• Approximate date – Proinsias Ó Doibhlin, poet and priest.

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