1739 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 1739 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch

George II

Events

• 27 April – the trial of Henry Barry, 4th Baron Barry of Santry, before the Irish House of Lords for the drunken murder of a tavern servant in Palmerstown the previous summer opens; he is convicted but later pardoned.
• July - August – wet summer, affecting the harvest and the cutting of turf.^[1]
• 26 September – "Address of the Roman Catholics of Ireland" to George II of Great Britain requesting longer leases.^[1]
• 6 October – the title Earl of Bessborough is created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of Brabazon Ponsonby, 2nd Viscount Duncannon, chief commissioner of revenue.^[1]
• 27 December - February 1740 – the 'Great Frost': unusually harsh winter.^[2]

Births

• 27 September – Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry, politician (d. 1821)
• 31 October – James Gordon, merchant, soldier, and politician in America (d. 1810)

Full date unknown

• Judge Fulton, judge, surveyor, politician, and founder of the village of Bass River, Nova Scotia (d. 1826)
• Hugh Kelly, dramatist and poet (d. 1777)
• Hugh O'Reilly, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher (d. 1801)

Deaths

• Charles Jervas, painter, translator and art collector (b. c.1675)

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: Palmer, Alan. Palmer . Veronica. 1992. The Chronology of British History. Century Ltd. London. 215–216. 0-7126-5616-2.