1761 in Ireland
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Events from the year1761 in Ireland.
Incumbent[edit]
Events[edit]
- 10 November –Protestant"manifesto of intolerance" ( "Black Petition" ) againstRoman Catholicssigned inGalway.[1]
Births[edit]
- 20 July –Arthur Gore, 3rd Earl of Arran,politician (died1837).
- 17 September –Samuel Neilson,one of the founder members of theSociety of United Irishmenand the founder of its newspaper theNorthern Star(died1803).
- 21 November –Dorothea Jordan(née Bland), actress and royal mistress (died 1816 in France).
- Full date unknown
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- Michael Byrne,signed as anable seamanbyCaptain BlighonHMS Bounty,primarily to play the fiddle.[2]
Deaths[edit]
- 7 January –Darkey Kelly,brothel-keeper,burned at the stakefor murder.
- 10 September –William Blakeney, 1st Baron Blakeney,soldier (born1672).
References[edit]
- ^Hardiman, James (1820).The History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway, from the earliest period to the present time.Dublin.
- ^Alexander, C. (2003),The Bounty: the True Story of the Mutiny on the BountyISBN0-670-03133-X,p. 84