1761 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 1761 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch

George III

Events

• 10 November – Protestant "manifesto of intolerance" ("Black Petition") against Roman Catholics signed in Galway.^[1]

Births

• 20 July – Arthur Gore, 3rd Earl of Arran, politician (died 1837).
• 17 September – Samuel Neilson, one of the founder members of the Society of United Irishmen and the founder of its newspaper the Northern Star (died 1803).
• 21 November – Dorothea Jordan (née Bland), actress and mistress of Prince William, Duke of Clarence, later King William IV (died 1816 in France).

Full date unknown

• Michael Byrne, signed as an able seaman by Captain Bligh on HMS Bounty, primarily to play the fiddle.^[2]

Deaths

• 7 January – Darkey Kelly, brothel-keeper, burned at the stake for murder.
• 10 September – William Blakeney, 1st Baron Blakeney, soldier (born 1672).

References

1. Book: Hardiman, James. The History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway, from the earliest period to the present time. Dublin. 1820.
2. Alexander, C. (2003), The Bounty: the True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty, p. 84