1729 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1729 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- February 3 – the foundation stone is laid for the new Irish Houses of Parliament on College Green in Dublin, designed by Edward Lovett Pearce MP as the world's first purpose-built bicameral legislative building.
- Completion of Castletown House, Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland's first Palladian mansion, designed by Alessandro Galilei and Edward Lovett Pearce for William Conolly, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons.{{cite web|title=About Castletown House|url=http://www.castletownhouse.ie/About/|publisher=Office of Public Works|access-date=2012-03-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317051045/http://www.castletownhouse.ie/About/|archive-date=2012-03-17|url-status=dead}}
Arts and literature
- Jonathan Swift publishes A Modest Proposal.
Births
- January 12 – Edmund Burke, statesman (d. 1797)
- September 21 – Philip Embury, Methodist (d. 1775)
- November 10 – Martin Glynn, Catholic priest (executed 1794)
- December 8 – James Bernard, politician (d. 1790).
- Hercules Langrishe, politician (d. 1811)
- Henry Mossop, actor (d. 1773?)
- Arthur O'Leary, Franciscan (d. 1802)
- Mary Woffington, Irish socialite (d. 1811){{cite book |last1=Highfill |first1=Philip H. |last2=Burnim |first2=Kalman A. |last3=Langhans |first3=Edward A. |title=A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 |date=1993 |publisher=Southern Illinois University Press |location=Carbondale |isbn=978-0-8093-1803-2 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015026964307&seq=237 |language=en |volume=16 |page=225}}
Deaths
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- March 30 – Jonathan Smedley, Dean of Clogher and Whig satirist (b. 1671)
- May 8 – William King, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin and author (b. 1650)
- September 1 – Richard Steele, writer and politician, co-founder of The Spectator magazine (b. 1672)
- ;Full date unknown
- :*Sir Edward Crofton, 2nd Baronet, of The Mote, landowner and politician (b. c. 1662)
- :*Aogán Ó Rathaille, Irish language poet (b. c. 1675)
References
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