1737 in Ireland

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[edit] Events

[edit] Births

• 2 May - William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, British Whig statesman, Home Secretary in 1782 and Prime Minister 1782-1783 (d.1805).
• 14 May - George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, statesman, colonial administrator and diplomat (d.1806).

[edit] Deaths

• 7 August - Hugh MacMahon, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, later Archbishop of Armagh (b.1660).
• November - Gerard Lally, Jacobite and military officer in France.