1718 in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: George I

Events

• May 2 – the scholar William Nicolson is appointed Bishop of Derry.
• May 10 – the Roman Catholic Bishopric of Emly is united with the Archbishopric of Cashel.
• July-August – the first ships carrying Scotch-Irish emigrants from Ulster to North America arrive in Boston, Massachusetts.
• October 28 – Ashkenazi Jews lease the site for Ballybough Cemetery in Fairview, Dublin, Ireland's first Jewish cemetery.
• Jervis Street Hospital, is founded by six surgeons as the Charitable Infirmary in Cook Street, the first public voluntary hospital in the British Isles.

Births

• March 2 – John Gore, [1st Baron Annaly], politician and peer
• Nano Nagle, founder of the Presentation Sisters

Deaths

• October 24 – Thomas Parnell, clergyman and poet
• 1716 or 1718 – Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh, historian