1742 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1742 in Ireland.
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Events
- c. March – Newry Canal opened.{{cite book|first=Ruth|last=Delany|title=A celebration of 250 years of Ireland's Inland Waterways|location=Belfast|publisher=Appletree Press|year=1986|isbn=0-86281-200-3}} On 28 March the Cope brings the first load of Tyrone coal carried from Lough Neagh to Dublin by this route.{{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}}
- 13 April – first performance of Handel's Messiah staged at Neal's Music Hall in Fishamble Street, Dublin{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml|title=BBC History British History Timeline|access-date=2007-09-03|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070909012414/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml|archive-date=9 September 2007}} in aid of local charities. Matthew Dubourg leads the orchestra. Handel leaves Ireland on 13 August.
Births
- John Prendergast Smyth, 1st Viscount Gort, politician (died 1817).
Deaths
- September 27 – Hugh Boulter, Anglican Primate of All Ireland (born 1672)
- ;Full date unknown
- :*James Arbuckle, poet and critic (born 1700).
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