1749 in Ireland

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Events

• 3 June - Radical apothecary Charles Lucas begins publication of The Censor, or Citizens' Journal in Dublin. ^[1]
• August–September - Charles Wesley makes his second visit to Ireland.^[2]
• 16 October - The Irish House of Commons threatens Charles Lucas with prosecution and he is forced to flee.^[2]
• James Simon's An essay towards an historical account of Irish coins is published in Dublin.^[2]

Births

• 22 January - John Barclay, soldier, politician, jurist and businessman in America (died 1824).
• July - Jocelyn Deane, politician (died 1780).
• Robert Barber, quartermaster on HMS Adventure during the second voyage of James Cook (died 1783).
• Thomas Burke, artist (died 1815).
• William Richardson, landowner and politician (died 1822).
• Edward Smyth, sculptor (died 1812).
• James Whitelaw, historian, writer, statistician and philanthropist (died 1813).
• Approximate date - Brian Merriman, Irish language poet (died 1805).

Deaths

• 3 January - John Ussher, politician (born 1703).
• 22 January - Matthew Concanen, writer, poet and lawyer (born 1701).
• 20 February (hanged at Tyburn) - Usher Gahagan, classical scholar
• May - Samuel Boyse, poet (born 1708).
• 21 September - Sir John Bingham, 5th Baronet, politician (born 1690).
• Approximate date - Eamonn Laidir Ó Flaithbertaigh, Jacobite.

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