1773 in Ireland

Events from the year 1773 in Ireland.

Incumbent

Monarch: George III

Events

Formation of Volunteer corps: the First Magherafelt Volunteers ; and the Offerlane Blues.

Arts and literature

15 March – first performance of Oliver Goldsmith's comedy She Stoops to Conquer at the Covent Garden Theatre in London.
4 May – Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill composes the keen Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire over the body of her husband Art Ó Laoghaire.
Thomas Leland publishes The History of Ireland, from the invasion of Henry II.

Births

23 July – Abraham Colles, professor of Anatomy, Surgery and Physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
19 August – Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry, politician.
19 November – Robert Arbuthnot, British military officer.
22 November – John George de la Poer Beresford, Archbishop of Armagh .
;Full date unknown
:*William Beatty, Ship's Surgeon on during the Battle of Trafalgar.
:*Edward Bunting, musician.
:*John Shaw, Captain in the United States Navy.

Deaths

17 April – Arthur Gore, 1st Earl of Arran, politician.
19 November – Charles Clinton, French and Indian War Colonel.