1771 in Ireland

Events from the year 1771 in Ireland.

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7 August – foundation stone of Clifton House, Belfast, the Belfast Charitable Society's poorhouse, is laid.
October – Achmet Borumborad, con-artist, opens a Turkish Baths on Bachelor's Quay (modern day Bachelor's Walk), Dublin.{{Cite web|last=Fallon|first=Donal|date=2018-03-01|title=The curious story of Achmet Borumborad and the Turkish Baths|url=https://comeheretome.com/2018/03/01/the-curious-story-of-achmet-borumborad-and-the-turkish-baths/|access-date=2022-11-06|website=comeheretome.com|language=en}}
The first of the Roman Catholic relief bills passes into law, permitting Catholics to reclaim and hold under lease for sixty-one years 50 acres (20 ha) of bog if more than a mile of any city or market town.
Archbishop Richard Robinson founds the [https://web.archive.org/web/20120804104716/http://armaghpubliclibrary.arm.ac.uk/ Armagh Public Library].
William James of Bailieborough emigrates to the Thirteen Colonies of North America where he will make a great fortune in Albany, New York, and become father of Henry James Sr.

19 July – Thomas Talbot, soldier and politician in Upper Canada (died 1853).
26 October – Juan Mackenna, soldier in Chile (died 1814).
William Homan, only Dunlum Baronet (died 1852).
Edward Jordan, rebel, fisherman and pirate in Nova Scotia (executed 1809).
Edward Kernan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher from 1824 (died 1844).
Philip Nolan, horse-trader and freebooter (killed 1801 in the United States).
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Elizabeth Rebecca Edwin née Richards, actress (died 1854).
James Bardin Palmer, land agent, lawyer and politician in Prince Edward Island (died 1833).

24 September – Arthur Jones-Nevill, Surveyor General of Ireland and politician (born c.1712).
4 November – Charles Lucas, apothecary, physician and radical politician (born 1713).
25 November – Sir Richard Butler, 5th Baronet, politician (born 1699).
18 December – James O'Brien, politician (born 1701?).