1741 in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: George II

  Events

• January-April – Great Irish Famine at its height.
• June-August – hot summer. The harvest is improved, but disease encouraged.
• 2 October – the Bull's Head Musical Society opens a Music Hall in Fishamble Street, Dublin.
• 18 November – the composer George Frideric Handel arrives in Dublin to give a series of concerts.
• Commencement of construction of obelisk and other works on Killiney Hill by John Mapas to relieve poverty.
• Completion of rebuilding of Powerscourt House in County Wicklow by the architect Richard Cassels.

  Births

• 23 June – William Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty, politician and statesman.
• 4 October – Edmond Malone, Shakespeare scholar and literary critic.
• 11 October – James Barry, painter.
• Approximate date – Bryan Higgins, chemist

  Deaths

• 16 March – Thomas FitzMaurice, 1st Earl of Kerry, politician.
• John Ussher, soldier and politician.