1737 in Ireland

This article lists events from the year 1737 in Ireland.

Incumbent

April 9 – William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire, appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in succession to Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset (sworn 7 September).
August 29 – proclamation reducing the ratio of gold to silver in coins of Ireland to conform with the British standard.{{cite book|editor=Moody, T. W.|title=A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1989|isbn=978-0-19-821744-2|display-editors=etal}}
September 1 – The News Letter is first published in Belfast by Francis Joy, making it the world's oldest existing English language newspaper.{{cite web|first=Ruth|last=Johnston|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/yourplaceandmine/belfast/newsletter.shtml|work=Your Place & Mine|title=Belfast News Letter|publisher=BBC|access-date=2011-11-15}}

April 18 – William Hazlitt, Unitarian minister and writer (d. 1820)
May 2 – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, British Whig statesman, home secretary in 1782 and prime minister 1782–1783 (d. 1805)
May 14 – George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, statesman, colonial administrator and diplomat (d. 1806)
Christopher Hewetson, sculptor (d. c.1798)
Joseph Wall, British army officer, colonial governor and murderer (d. 1802)

August 7 – Hugh MacMahon, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, later Archbishop of Armagh (b. 1660)
November – Sir Gerard Lally, Jacobite and French military officer.
John Neale, influential Dublin music publisher and musical instrument maker.