1767 in Ireland
Events from the year 1767 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- 20 July – Arthur Chichester, 5th Earl of Donegall, grants new leases for most of his property holdings in Belfast, obliging tenants to redevelop.
- 19 August – Viscount Townshend appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
- The titles Earl of Howth and Viscount St Lawrence are created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of Thomas St Lawrence, 15th Baron Howth.
- A Magdalen Asylum was established by Lady Arabella Denny in Leeson Street, for Protestant women.
Arts and literature
- Hugh Kelly's novel Memoirs of a Magdalen is published.
- John O'Keeffe's first play, The She Gallant, is performed at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin.
Births
- 1 January – Maria Edgeworth, novelist.
- 14 March – Charles Arbuthnot, Tory politician and member of the Privy Council.
- 19 May – Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty, diplomat, Irish, and later British, MP.
- 31 August – Henry Joy McCracken, cotton manufacturer and industrialist, Presbyterian and a founding member of the Society of the United Irishmen.
- 21 November – Thomas Russell, co-founder and leader of the United Irishmen, executed for his part in Robert Emmet's rebellion.
- ;Full date unknown
- :*John Moore, participant in Irish Rebellion of 1798, proclaimed President of the Government of the Province of Connaught.
Deaths
- 30 November – John Cole, 1st Baron Mountflorence, politician.