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Events
- 21 June - British Parliament repeals the Declaratory Act 1720, thereby conceding Irish legislative independence from Great Britain.
- The British Prime Minister Lord Rockingham repeals Poyning's Law.
- Grattan's parliament founded in Dublin
- Irish judges were granted the same security of tenure as their English counterparts
Births
- 1 April - James Daly, 1st Baron Dunsandle and Clanconal, politician (d.1847).
- 26 July - John Field, composer and pianist (d.1837).
- 25 September - Charles Maturin, clergyman, novelist and playwright (d.1824).
- 29 September - Windham Quin, 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer (d.1850).
- 11 November - Francis Blackburne, Lord Chancellor of Ireland (d.1867).
- 23 November - James FitzGibbon, British soldier and hero of the War of 1812 (d.1863).
Full date unknown
- Sir John Burke, 2nd Baronet, soldier and politician (d.1847).
- James Hardiman, lawyer, librarian and historian (d.1855.
Deaths
- 25 April - Anne Bonny, pirate in the Caribbean (b. c1698).
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