1734 in Ireland

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Events

• 29 April
  • Act prohibits converts from Roman Catholicism to the Church of Ireland from educating their children in the old religion or from becoming Justices of Peace.^[1]
  • Act for relief of creditors of failed banks.^[1]
• 19 May - George Berkeley consecrated as Church of Ireland Bishop of Cloyne.^[1]
• 17 August - Foundation of Mercer's Hospital for the sick and poor in Dublin under a bequest of Mary Mercer.^[1]

Arts and literature

• March - Upper gallery of the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin collapses for the third time.
• November - George Faulkner begins publication of an edition of Jonathan Swift's Works in Dublin^[1] with a corrected text.

Births

• 25 July - Arthur Gore, 2nd Earl of Arran, politician (died 1809).
• Boetius Egan, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam (died 1798).

Deaths

• 28 September - James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn (b. c1661).
• Richard Cantillon, economic theorist (born 1680).

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