1762 in Ireland

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Events

• February - Roman Catholic nobility and gentry offer support to King George III in the Seven Years' War in the Iberian Peninsula.^[1]
• 20 March - A French privateer takes six ships off Youghal.^[2]
• 30 April - Acts grant security to Protestants who have acquired property from Catholics.^[1]

Arts and literature

• 14 May - Charles Macklin's The True-Born Irishman is first performed at the Crow Street Theatre in Dublin.^[1]
• Approximate date - James Barry paints Baptism of the King of Cashel.

Births

• 11 January - Andrew Cherry, playwright, songwriter, actor and theatrical manager (died 1812 in Wales).
• 24 February - Gideon Ouseley, Methodism's 'apostle to the Irish' (died 1839).
• 20 May - Eyre Coote, British Army officer (died 1832).
• 1 June - Edmund Ignatius Rice, Roman Catholic missionary and educationalist, founder of the Congregation of Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers (died 1844).
• 12 June - Chambré Brabazon Ponsonby-Barker, politician (died 1834).
• 25 December - Michael Kelly, actor, singer and composer (died 1826).
• Henry Browne Hayes, sheriff and abductor (died 1832).
• Approximate date - John Chetwode Eustace, Roman Catholic priest and antiquary (died 1815 in Italy).

Deaths

• 20 February - Chambré Brabazon Ponsonby, politician (born c.1720).
• 20 March - James Cuffe, landowner (born 1707).
• 22 March - Courthorpe Clayton, soldier and courtier.
• September
  • Francesco Geminiani, violinist and composer (born 1687 in Italy).
  • Seán Ó Murchadha, poet.^[1]
• 16 November - John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork, writer (born 1707).
• 30 December - Robert Blakeney, politician (born c.1724).
• Macnamara Morgan, playwright and barrister (born c.1720).
• Charles Smith, topographer and apothecary (born 1715).

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