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1 February - Wolfe Tone arrives in France.^[1]
12 July - First Orange Institution parades on The Twelfth held to commemorate the Battle of the Boyne (1690)^[2] in Portadown, Lurgan and Waringstown.^[3]
9 August - The convict ship Marquis Cornwallis leaves Cork for Australia.^[4]
September - 'Gold rush' in the Wicklow Hills near Avoca.^[5]
10 December - The convict ship Britannia leaves Cork for Australia.^[4]
15 December - Expédition d'Irlande: French expedition (43 ships and 14,000 men) sails from Brest.
22 December - French fleet, with Wolfe Tone on board, arrives in Bantry Bay, but is unable to land due to contrary winds.^[1]
Insurrection Act^[1] and Treason by Women Act passed.
Yeomanry Corps formed.^[1]
Building of the Four Courts in Dublin is substantially completed under the supervision of James Gandon.

Edward Bunting's A General Collection of the Ancient Irish Music is published.

27 March - Robert James Graves, surgeon (died 1853).
April - Abraham Brewster, judge and Lord Chancellor of Ireland (died 1874).
20 July - Maziere Brady, judge and Lord Chancellor of Ireland (died 1871).
16 August - Francis Crozier, British Royal Navy officer and polar explorer (lost after 1848).
4 October - Robert King, 4th Earl of Kingston, soldier and politician (died 1867).
27 November
- John MacEnery, priest and pioneer archaeologist (died 1841).
- Richard Mayne, barrister and joint first Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, head of the London Metropolitan Police (1829–1868) (died 1868).
3 December - Francis Kenrick, headed the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia, then was Archbishop of Baltimore (died 1863).

Michael Banim, writer (died 1874).
James Curley, astronomer (died 1889 in the United States).
George Crawford Hyndman, auctioneer and marine biologist (died 1867).
John Pitt Kennedy, British military engineer, agricultural reformer and civil servant (died 1879).
James McLevy, detective in Edinburgh (died 1875 in Scotland).
George Maguire, Mayor of St. Louis, Missouri (died 1882 in the United States).
Jones Quain, anatomist (died 1865).
Michael Joseph Quin, author, journalist and editor (died 1843).

1 2 3 4 Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 374.
↑ "Parades and Marches - Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events". Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Retrieved 28 January 2010.
↑ McCormack, W. J., ed. (2001). The Blackwell Companion to Modern Irish Culture. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 317.
1 2 Bateson, Charles (1974). The Convict Ships, 1787-1868. Sydney. ISBN 0-85174-195-9.
↑ "Is there gold in the Wicklow Hills?". Irish Identity. 2006-08-11. Retrieved 2012-07-23.

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