1745 in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: George II

  Events

• 19 October – Jonathan Swift, satirist and Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, dies aged 78. His body is laid out in public for the people of Dublin to pay their last respects, and he is buried, in accordance with his wishes, in his cathedral by Esther Johnson's side with his own epitaph: Ubi sæva Indignatio / Ulterius / Cor lacerare nequit.
• Bartholomew Mosse establishes the Dublin Lying-In Hospital.
• The town walls of Youghal are repaired.

  Births

• 14 April – Richard Annesley, 2nd Earl Annesley, politician.
• 24 December – William Paterson, jurist in the United States.

  Deaths

• 13 May – Charles Coffey, playwright and composer.
• 19 October – Jonathan Swift, cleric, satirist, essayist and poet.
• 16 November – James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, soldier and statesman.