1735 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 1735 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch

George II

Events

• c. December – Bishop George Berkeley's economic text The Querist begins publication anonymously in Dublin.^[1]
• Construction of the Magazine Fort in Phoenix Park, Dublin, begins.
• Thomas Carte's An History of the Life of James, Duke of Ormonde begins publication in London.

Arts and literature

• The first known printed poetry by an Ulster Scots writer (in the Habbie stanza form) is published in a broadsheet in Strabane.^[2]

Births

• 27 February – Thomas Conway, soldier of fortune (d. 1795)
• 19 July – Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington, politician and composer (d. 1781)
• 22 September – Charles Bingham, 1st Earl of Lucan, politician (d. 1799)
• William Blakeney, British Army officer and politician (d. 1804)
• Thomas Busby, soldier and innkeeper (d. 1798)
• Sir Thomas Butler, 6th Baronet, politician (d. 1772)
• Patrick Duigenan, lawyer and politician (d. 1816)
• John McCausland, politician (d. 1804)
• Edward Dominic O'Brien, British Army officer (d. 1801)

Deaths

• 25 January – Matthew Clerk, Presbyterian minister (b. 1659)
• 26 February – Gustavus Hamilton, politician (b. c.1685)
• 4 March - Mary Mercer (of Mercer's Hospital, Stephen Street, Dublin)
• 4 August – George St George, 1st Baron St George, politician (b. c.1658)
• 27 August – Peter Browne, Church of Ireland Bishop of Cork and Ross and writer (b. c.1665)

Notes and References

1. Book: Moody, T. W.. A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. 1989. 978-0-19-821744-2. etal.
2. Book: Hewitt, John. Rhyming Weavers. Belfast. Blackstaff Press. 1974. 0856400327.