1770 in Ireland
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Events from the year1770 inIreland.
Incumbent[edit]
Events[edit]
- 21 March – theCollege Historical Society,adebatingsociety atTrinity College Dublin,founded byEdmund Burke,holds its first meeting[1]when Burke's Club (founded 1747) merges with the Historical Club (1753).
- Lough Ree Yacht Clubis founded asAthloneYacht Club.
- July – A civil action is brought against Owen Coffee, an attorney fromClonkeen,County Westmeathby Captain Andrew Armstrong of Castle Armstrong,King's County,for having employed Armstrong's runaway East Indian slave, Peter Kent, while he was still his property. Armstrong is awarded £100 damages.[2]
Arts and literature[edit]
- John O'Keeffe's playThe Giant's Causeway.
Births[edit]
- 30 November –Andrew Blayney, 11th Baron Blayney,soldier, politician and peer (died1832).
- Full date unknown
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- William Reid Clanny,physician and inventor of theClanny safety lampfor miners (died1850).
- James Orr,rhyming weaver poet (died1816).
Deaths[edit]
- 12 January –James Stopford, 1st Earl of Courtown,politician (born1700).
- 12 September –William Annesley, 1st Viscount Glerawly,politician (born1710).
- Full date unknown
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- Francis Lucas,naval officer and merchant trader (b. c1741).
References[edit]
- ^"College Historical Society".University of Dublin, Trinity College, Central Societies Committee. 2009. Archived fromthe originalon 2012-02-27.Retrieved2012-08-01.
- ^W. A. Hart"'Africans in Eighteenth-Century Ireland',Irish Historical Studies,Vol. 33, No. 129, 2002, at JSTOR