1726 in Ireland
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Events
- 27 October - Rev. Dr. Caleb Threlkeld publishes Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum .....Dispositarum sive Commentatio de Plantis Indigenis praesertim Dublinensibus instituta in Dublin, the first flora of Ireland.[1]
Arts and literature
- 26 October - Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is published in London.
Births
- April - Thomas Browne, 4th Viscount Kenmare, landowner and politician (died 1795).
- 20 May - John Browne, 1st Baron Kilmaine, politician (died 1794).
Full date unknown
- Isaac Barré, soldier and politician (died 1802).
- Dorcas Blackwood, 1st Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (died 1807).
- Sir Eyre Coote, KB, soldier (died 1783).
Deaths
- 20 May - Nicholas Brady, Anglican divine and poet (born 1659).
- Sean na Sagart, priest hunter in Penal Times (b. c1690)
References
- ↑ Nelson, E. Charles (1978). "The Publication Date of the First Irish Flora, Caleb Threlkeld's Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum, 1726". Glasra 2: 37–42. Retrieved 2012-10-03.
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