We feel ourselves peculiarly called upon to stand forward in the crisis to pray your majesty to preserve the Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland inviolate...[1]
20 February – Parliament House, Dublin, catches fire during a legislative session. "Although in imminent danger of the roof falling in," it is noted later, "the House did not adjourn until a proper motion had been put and carried in the affirmative."[2]
3–8 December – Catholic convention in Dublin, during which, at the motion of Christopher Dillon Bellew, it is resolved that the petition in favour of emancipation should be presented directly to the King.
December (date unknown) – eleven people are drowned near the eighth lock of the Grand Canal when an overloaded barge capsizes.
Belfast Reading Society becomes the Belfast Society for Promoting Knowledge, later to become the Linen Hall Library.
Beamish and Crawford's 'CorkPorterBrewery' is established when William Beamish and William Crawford purchase an existing brewery (from Edward Allen) on a site in Cramer's Lane used for brewing since at least the 17th century.[6]
^Calendar of the Ancient Records of Dublin14 pp. 241–242.
^Walford, Cornelius, ed. (1876). "Fires, Great". The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance. C. and E. Layton. p. 62.
^Lanier, Sara C. (1999). ""It is new-strung and shan't be heard": nationalism and memory in the Irish harp tradition". British Journal of Ethnomusicology. 8.
^Connolly, S. J. (ed.). The Oxford companion to Irish history (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 45. ISBN9780199691869.
