1780 in Ireland

Events

• Sacramental Test abolished.^[1]
• Henry Grattan demands parliamentary independence.^[1]

Births

• January - William Henry Fitton, geologist (d.1861).
• 13 April - Alexander Mitchell, engineer and inventor of the screw-pile lighthouse (d.1868).
• 17 August - George Croly, poet, novelist, historian and divine (d.1860).
• 20 December - John Wilson Croker, statesman and author (d.1857).

Full date unknown

• Michael John Brenan, priest and ecclesiastical historian (d.1847).
• Anne Devlin, Irish republican and housekeeper to Robert Emmet (d.1851).
• Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin, author, teacher, draper and politician (d.1838).

Deaths

References