1750 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 1750 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch

George II

Events

• At about this date, a chocolate house, the predecessor of Daly's Club, is established in Dublin.^[1]
• Captain Henry Delamain takes over the World's End Pottery in Dublin, bringing his expertise in the manufacture of Delftware.

Births

• 7 February – Thomas McCord, businessman and politician in Lower Canada (died 1824)
• 24 July – John Philpot Curran, orator and wit, lawyer and MP (died 1817)
• Full date unknown

• John Connolly, second bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of New York (died 1825)

Deaths

• 29 July – Laetitia Pilkington, poet and memoirist (born c. 1709)
• Seamus McMurphy, poet and outlaw (born 1720)

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=w_k_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA319 Edinburgh Magazine 8 (1841) p. 319.