1726 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 1726 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch

George I

Events

• October 27 – Rev. Dr. Caleb Threlkeld publishes Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum .....Dispositarum sive Commentatio de Plantis Indigenis praesertim Dublinensibus instituta in Dublin, the first flora of Ireland.^[1]

Arts and literature

• October 26 – Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is published in London

Births

• April – Thomas Browne, 4th Viscount Kenmare, landowner and politician (d. 1795)
• May 20 – John Browne, 1st Baron Kilmaine, politician (d. 1794)

Full date unknown

• Isaac Barré, soldier and politician (d. 1802)

• Dorcas Blackwood, 1st Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (d. 1807)

• Sir Eyre Coote, KB, soldier (d. 1783)

Deaths

• May 20 – Nicholas Brady, Anglican divine and poet (b. 1659)
• Sean na Sagart, priest hunter in Penal Times (b. c1690)
• Bryan Townsend (Irish politician)

Notes and References

1. Nelson. E. Charles. 1978. The Publication Date of the First Irish Flora, Caleb Threlkeld's Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum, 1726. Glasra. 2. 37–42. 2012-10-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20130602223510/http://www.botanicgardens.ie/glasra/2_3.htm. 2013-06-02. dead.