1729 in Ireland

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Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and Literature 3 Births 3.1 Full date unknown 4 Deaths 4.1 Full date unknown

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[edit] Arts and Literature

• Jonathan Swift publishes A Modest Proposal.

[edit] Births

• 12 January - Edmund Burke, statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher (d.1797).

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• Henry Mossop, actor (d.1774).

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• May - William King, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin and author (b.1650).
• 1 September - Richard Steele, writer and politician, co-founder of The Spectator magazine (b.1672).

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• Aogán Ó Rathaille, Irish language poet (b. c1675).
• Jonathan Smedley, religious opportunist and satirical victim who engaged in polemic with Jonathan Swift and the Tory party (b.1671).