1723 in Ireland
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Events
- 12 March - The title of Viscount Palmerston is created in the Peerage of Ireland for the politician Henry Temple.
- 14 December - Bernard O'Gara is selected to succeed Francis Burke as Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam.
- Avoca Handweavers, Ireland's oldest surviving business, is established in County Wicklow.
Births
- Mervyn Archdall, antiquary (died 1791)
- Approximate date - William Greatrakes, lawyer (died 1781)
Deaths
- 11 February - Captain Hildebrand Alington, 5th Baron Alington, soldier, last Baron Alington of the first creation (born 1641)
- 2 June - Esther Vanhomrigh, Jonathan Swift's "Vanessa" (born c. 1688)
- August - William Handcock, politician (born 1676)
- August/September - Francis Burke, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam
- 16 September - Gustavus Hamilton, 1st Viscount Boyne, soldier and politician (born 1642)
- 22 December - Mary Joseph Butler, Benedictine abbess (born 1641)
- Henry Colley, politician (born c. 1685)
- Micheál Ó Mordha, Roman Catholic priest, philosopher and educationalist (born c. 1639)
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