1767 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1767 in Ireland.
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Events
- 20 July – Arthur Chichester, 5th Earl of Donegall, grants new leases for most of his property holdings in Belfast, obliging tenants to redevelop.{{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}}
- 19 August – Viscount Townshend appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (sworn 14 October).
- The titles Earl of Howth and Viscount St Lawrence are created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of Thomas St Lawrence, 15th Baron Howth.{{cite book|last1=Lodge|first1=John|last2=Archdall|first2=Mervyn|title=The Complete Peerage|publisher=J. Murray|location=Dublin|year=1789}}
- A Magdalen Asylum was established by Lady Arabella Denny in Leeson Street, for Protestant women. {{cite book |last=Kilfeather |first=Siobhán Marie |title=Dublin: A Cultural History |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2005 |location=New York |pages=258 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8QWZRVAPa6sC&pg=PA258 |isbn=978-0-19-518202-6 }}
Arts and literature
- Hugh Kelly's novel Memoirs of a Magdalen is published.
- John O'Keeffe's first play, The She Gallant, is performed at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin.
Births
- 1 January – Maria Edgeworth, novelist (died 1849).
- 14 March – Charles Arbuthnot, Tory politician and member of the Privy Council (died 1850).
- 19 May – Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty, diplomat, Irish, and later British, MP (died 1837).
- 31 August – Henry Joy McCracken, cotton manufacturer and industrialist, Presbyterian and a founding member of the Society of the United Irishmen (died 1798).
- 21 November – Thomas Russell, co-founder and leader of the United Irishmen, executed for his part in Robert Emmet's rebellion (died 1803).
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- :*John Moore, participant in Irish Rebellion of 1798, proclaimed President of the Government of the Province of Connaught (died 1799).
Deaths
- 30 November – John Cole, 1st Baron Mountflorence, politician (born 1709).
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