1740 in Ireland

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Contents 1 Events 2 Births 2.1 Full date unknown 3 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Great Irish Famine (1740-1741)

[edit] Births

• 7 April - Armar Lowry-Corry, 1st Earl Belmore, politician and High Sheriff (d.1802).
• 22 October - Philip Francis, politician and pamphleteer (d.1818).

[edit] Full date unknown

• Richard Barrett, poet and United Irishman (d.1818).
• John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel, politician and Irish Chancellor of the Exchequer (d.1828).
• Edmund Garvey, painter (d.1813).
• Nathaniel Grogan, painter (d.1807).
• James Napper Tandy, rebel leader (d.1803).

[edit] Deaths