1784 in Ireland

Events

• The Old Bushmills Distillery became an officially registered company
• The post of Postmasters General of Ireland established

Births

• 12 May - James Sheridan Knowles, dramatist and actor (d.1862).
• 20 September - Sir Richard John Griffith, 1st Baronet, geologist (d.1878).

Full date unknown

• Richard Church, soldier, military officer and general in the Greek Army (d.1873).
• Thomas Barnwall Martin, soldier, landowner and politician (d.1847).
• Antoine Ó Raifteiri, Irish language poet (d.1835).

Deaths

• 3 April - John Gore, 1st Baron Annaly, politician and peer (b.1718).
• 26 April - Nano Nagle, founder of the Presentation Sisters (b.1718).
• 29 May - George Barret, Sr., artist (b. c1730).