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List of events
Events from the year 1780 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
Births
- January –
William Henry Fitton, geologist (died
1861).
- 12 March –
David Barry,
military surgeon and
physiologist (died
1835).
- 20 March –
Myles Byrne, a leader of the
Irish Rebellion of 1798 and soldier in the service of France (died
1862).
- 13 April –
Alexander Mitchell, engineer and
inventor of the
screw-pile lighthouse (died
1868).
- May –
Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin, author, teacher, draper and politician (died
1838).
- 17 August –
George Croly, poet, novelist, historian and divine (died
1860).
- 1 December –
Edward Bowen, lawyer and politician in
Lower Canada (died
1866).
- 20 December –
John Wilson Croker, statesman and author (died
1857).
Deaths
References
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^ Delany, Ruth (1988). A celebration of 250 years of Ireland's Inland Waterways. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 80.
ISBN
0-86281-200-3.
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b Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 373.