1771 in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: George III

  Events

• 7 August – foundation stone of Clifton House, Belfast, the Belfast Charitable Society's poorhouse, is laid.
• October – Achmet Borumborad, con-artist, opens a Turkish Baths on Bachelor's Quay, Dublin.
• The first of the Roman [Catholic relief bills] passes into law, permitting Catholics to reclaim and hold under lease for sixty-one years 50 acres of bog if more than a mile of any city or market town.
• Archbishop Richard Robinson founds the .
• William James of Bailieborough emigrates to the Thirteen Colonies of North America where he will make a great fortune in Albany, New York, and become father of Henry James Sr.

  Births

• 19 July – Thomas Talbot, soldier and politician in Upper Canada.
• 26 October – Juan Mackenna, soldier in Chile.
• William Homan, only Dunlum Baronet.
• Edward Jordan, rebel, fisherman and pirate in Nova Scotia.
• Edward Kernan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher from 1824.
• Philip Nolan, horse-trader and freebooter.
• Approximate date
• *Elizabeth Rebecca Edwin née Richards, actress.
• *James Bardin Palmer, land agent, lawyer and politician in Prince Edward Island.

  Deaths

• 24 September – Arthur Jones-Nevill, Surveyor General of Ireland and politician.
• 4 November – Charles Lucas, apothecary, physician and radical politician.
• 25 November – Sir [Richard Butler, 5th Baronet], politician.
• 18 December – James O'Brien, politician.