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See also:	Other events of 1765 List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1765 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: George III

Events

• Coercion Act against the Whiteboys.^[1]
• First Magdalene asylum (for Protestant girls) in Ireland opens on Leeson Street in Dublin, founded by Lady Arabella Denny.^[2]
• Gracehill established in County Antrim as a Moravian community.

Arts and literature

• Sculptor Christopher Hewetson settles in Rome.

Births

• 14 January – George Knox, politician (died 1827).
• 13 April – Thomas Wallace, politician (died 1847).
• 19 July – George Beresford, Church of Ireland Bishop of Kilmore (died 1841).
• 6 December – Edward O'Reilly, scholar (died 1830).
• 29 December - Laurence Hynes Halloran, alleged criminal deported to Australia
• Robert Holmes, barrister and nationalist (died 1859).
• Samuel Turner, barrister and informer (killed 1807).
• Approximate date – Charles Bourke, priest (died 1820).

Deaths

• 24 November – William Dunkin, poet (born c.1709).
• 26 November – Sir Edward O'Brien, 2nd Baronet, politician (born 1705).
• 29 December – John Alexander, minister and writer (born 1736).
• 31 December – Samuel Madden, clergyman, writer and benefactor (born 1686).