1773 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1773 in Ireland.
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
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- William Beatty, Ship's Surgeon on HMS Victory 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
- ^ Bigger, Francis Joseph (May 1909). "The National Volunteers of Ireland, 1782". Ulster Journal of Archaeology, 2nd Series. 15 (2/3).
- ^ "She Stoops to Conquer or The Mistakes of a Night". theatrehistory.com. Archived from the original on 14 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-25.
- ^ Broderick, Marian (2002). Wild Irish Women. Dublin: O'Brien Press. pp. 65–7. ISBN 978-0-86278-780-6.