1773 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 1773 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch

George III

Events

• Formation of Volunteer corps: the First Magherafelt Volunteers (June); and the Offerlane Blues (10 October).^[1]

Arts and literature

• 15 March – first performance of Oliver Goldsmith's comedy She Stoops to Conquer at the Covent Garden Theatre in London.^[2]
• 4 May – Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill (Eileen O' Connell) composes the keen Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire over the body of her husband Art Ó Laoghaire.^[3]
• Thomas Leland publishes The History of Ireland, from the invasion of Henry II.

Births

• 23 July – Abraham Colles, professor of Anatomy, Surgery and Physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (died 1843).
• 19 August – Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry, politician (died 1853).
• 19 November – Robert Arbuthnot, British military officer (died 1853).
• 22 November – John George de la Poer Beresford, Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland) (died 1862).

Full date unknown

• William Beatty, Ship's Surgeon on during the Battle of Trafalgar (died 1842).

• Edward Bunting, musician (died 1843).

• John Shaw, Captain in the United States Navy (died 1823).

Deaths

• 17 April – Arthur Gore, 1st Earl of Arran, politician (born 1703).
• 19 November – Charles Clinton, French and Indian War Colonel (born 1690.
• 19 November – James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, politician (born 1722).

References

1. Bigger. Francis Joseph. The National Volunteers of Ireland, 1782. Ulster Journal of Archaeology . 2nd Series. 15. 2/3. May 1909.
2. Web site: She Stoops to Conquer or The Mistakes of a Night. theatrehistory.com. 2007-08-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20070814142622/http://www.theatrehistory.com/british/goldsmith002.html. 14 August 2007.
3. Book: Broderick, Marian. Wild Irish Women. Dublin. O'Brien Press. 2002. 978-0-86278-780-6. 65–7.