1761 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1761 in Ireland.
Events
- 10 November - Protestant "manifesto of intolerance" ("Black Petition") against Roman Catholics signed in Galway.[1]
Births
- 20 July - Arthur Gore, 3rd Earl of Arran, politician (died 1837).
- 17 September - Samuel Neilson, one of the founder members of the Society of United Irishmen and the founder of its newspaper the Northern Star (died 1803).
- 21 November - Dorothea Jordan (née Bland), actress and royal mistress (died 1816 in France).
Full date unknown
- Michael Byrne, signed as an able seaman by Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty, primarily to play the fiddle.[2]
Deaths
- 7 January - Darkey Kelly, brothel-keeper, burned at the stake for murder.
- 10 September - William Blakeney, 1st Baron Blakeney, soldier (born 1672).
References
- ↑ Hardiman, James (1820). The History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway, from the earliest period to the present time. Dublin.
- ↑ Alexander, C. (2003), The Bounty: the True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty ISBN 0-670-03133-X, p. 84