1790 in Ireland
List of events
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Events from the year 1790 in Ireland.
Incumbents
- Monarch: George III
Events
- 15 March – The Sick and Indigent Roomkeepers' Society is established in Dublin; by the 21st century this will be the city's oldest surviving charity.[1]
- Armagh Observatory, founded by Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby, Archbishop of Armagh, begins to function.
Arts and literature
- Emo Court, near Emo, County Laois, is designed by James Gandon for John Dawson, 1st Earl of Portarlington.
Births
- 1 January – George Petrie, painter, musician, antiquary and archaeologist (died 1866).
- 15 April – Theobald Jones, British Royal Navy officer, lichenologist and Unionist politician (died 1868).
- June – Arthur Jacob, ophthalmologist (died 1874).
- 10 October – Father Theobald Mathew, temperance reformer (died 1856).
Deaths
- Patrick Browne, physician and botanist (born 1720).
References
- ^ Lindsay, Deirdre (1990). Dublin's Oldest Charity. Dublin: Anniversary Press. ISBN 1-870940-06-7.
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