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List of events
Events from the year 1764 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
Arts and literature
- The English-born painter
William Ashford arrives in Dublin; he will spend most of the rest of his life in Ireland.
Births
- 15 February –
Charles MacCarthy, soldier in the French, Dutch and British armies, governor in
British West Africa (died
1824).
- 24 April –
Thomas Addis Emmet, lawyer, politician and
United Irishman (died
1827 in the United States).
- 1 June –
Marcus Beresford, soldier and politician (died
1803).
- 30 June –
Charles Bury, 1st Earl of Charleville, politician (died
1835).
- 21 August –
Joseph Rogers, settler in the
United States (died 1833).
- 25 August –
James Hope, a leader of the United Irishmen in the
Irish Rebellion of 1798 and insurrection of 1803 (died
1847).
- 25 November –
Henry Charles Sirr, soldier (died
1841).
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Arthur French, politician (died
1820).
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Charles O'Conor, priest and scholar (died 1828).
Deaths