1768 in Ireland

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Events

• Poolbeg Lighthouse in Dublin Bay is first lit (by candlepower).^[1]
• The Ladies of Llangollen meet for the first time.
• The Loftus Baronetcy, of Mount Loftus in the County of Kilkenny, is created in the Baronetage of Ireland for Edward Loftus.^[2]
• Bishop John O'Brien's Irish-English dictionary, Focaloir Gaoidhilge-Sax-Bearha, is published posthumously and anonymously in Paris.^[3]

Births

• 22 March - Melesina Trench (née Chenevix), writer (died 1827).
• 8 April - Sir Frederick Falkiner, 1st Baronet, politician (died 1824).
• 7 May - Alexander Arbuthnot, Church of Ireland Bishop of Killaloe (died 1828).
• 9 May - Nathaniel Clements, 2nd Earl of Leitrim, nobleman and Whig MP (died 1854).
• 11 July - Joseph O'Lawlor, soldier in the service of Spain (died 1850).
• Undated
  • John Milner Barry, physician (died 1822).
  • Edward Donovan, writer, traveller and amateur zoologist (died 1837).
  • Daniel Murray, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin (died 1852).
• Approximate date
  • John Brenan, physician (died 1830).
  • James McClelland, Solicitor-General for Ireland (died 1831).

Deaths

• 3 March - Richard Mounteney, judge and classical scholar (born 1707).
• 18 March - Rev. Laurence Sterne, novelist (born 1713).
• 11 September - William Francis Crosbie, politician.
• Thomas Drennan, reforming Presbyterian minister (born 1696).
• Richard Trench, politician (born 1710).

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