1726 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1726 in Ireland.
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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.{{cite journal|last=Nelson|first=E. Charles|year=1978|title=The Publication Date of the First Irish Flora, Caleb Threlkeld's Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum, 1726|journal=Glasra|volume=2|pages=37–42|url=http://www.botanicgardens.ie/glasra/2_3.htm|access-date=2012-10-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130602223510/http://www.botanicgardens.ie/glasra/2_3.htm|archive-date=2013-06-02|url-status=dead}}
Arts and literature
- October 26 – Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is published in London
Births
- April – Thomas Browne, 4th Viscount Kenmare, landowner and politician (d. 1795)
- May 20 – John Browne, 1st Baron Kilmaine, politician (d. 1794)
- ;Full date unknown
- :*Isaac Barré, soldier and politician (d. 1802)
- :*Dorcas Blackwood, 1st Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (d. 1807)
- :*Sir Eyre Coote, KB, soldier (d. 1783)
Deaths
- May 20 – Nicholas Brady, Anglican divine and poet (b. 1659)
- Sean na Sagart, priest hunter in Penal Times (b. c1690)
- Bryan Townsend (Irish politician)
References
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