1792 in Ireland

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Contents 1 Events 2 Births 2.1 Full date unknown 3 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Belfast Reading Society, becomes the Belfast Society for Promoting Knowledge, later to become the Linen Hall Library.

[edit] Births

• 30 January - John Henry Hopkins, first bishop of Episcopal Diocese of Vermont and eighth Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (d.1868).
• 23 April - John Thomas Romney Robinson, astronomer and physicist (d.1882).

[edit] Full date unknown

• Thomas Deane, architect (d.1871).
• Thomas Colley Grattan, writer (d.1864).
• William Hamilton Maxwell, novelist (d.1850).
• James Arthur O'Connor, painter (d.1841).

[edit] Deaths

• 18 February - George Browne, soldier of fortune, became field-marshal in the Russian army (b.1698).
• 10 October - Denis Daly, landowner, MP and Mayor of Galway (b.1747).