1771 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1771 in Ireland.

Events

• 7 August - Foundation stone of Clifton House, Belfast, the Belfast Charitable Society's poorhouse, is laid.
• Archbishop Richard Robinson founds the Armagh Public Library.
• William James of Bailieborough emigrates to the Thirteen Colonies of North America where he will make a great fortune in Albany, New York, and become father of Henry James Sr.

Births

• 19 July - Thomas Talbot, soldier and politician in Upper Canada (died 1853).
• 26 October - Juan Mackenna, soldier in Chile (died 1814).
• William Homan, only Dunlum Baronet (died 1852).
• Edward Jordan, rebel, fisherman and pirate in Nova Scotia (executed 1809).
• Edward Kernan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher from 1824 (died 1844).
• Philip Nolan, horse-trader and freebooter (killed 1801 in the United States).
• Approximate date
  • Elizabeth Rebecca Edwin née Richards, actress (died 1854).
  • James Bardin Palmer, land agent, lawyer and politician in Prince Edward Island (died 1833).

Deaths

• 24 September - Arthur Jones-Nevill, Surveyor General of Ireland and politician (born c.1712).
• 4 November - Charles Lucas, apothecary, physician and radical politician (born 1713).
• 25 November - Sir Richard Butler, 5th Baronet, politician (born 1699).
• 18 December - James O'Brien, politician (born 1701?).