1789 in Ireland
Events from the year 1789 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- 26 March – The Abecedarian Society is established, for the purposes of "raising a fund for the relief of distressed school masters, school mistresses, and their families".
- 29 March – 12 July: John Wesley makes his last visit to Ireland.
- 20 June – following the death of James Hewitt, 1st Viscount Lifford, on 28 April, John FitzGibbon is appointed as Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
- 26 June – a Whig Club is established in Dublin.
- 28 August – the Hodson Baronetcy, of Holybrooke House in the County of Wicklow, is created in the Baronetage of Ireland for Robert Hodson, High Sheriff of Wicklow.
- 24 October – Royal Canal Company incorporated to construct a waterway from Dublin to the River Shannon.
- Mail coaches begin a scheduled service from Dublin to Belfast.
Arts and literature
- Charlotte Brooke's Reliques of Irish Poetry is published in Dublin.
- Thomas Campbell's is published in Dublin.
Births
- 26 March – Edward Ffrench Bromhead, mathematician.
- 24 September – Richard Henry Wilde, lawyer and Congressman in USA.
- 3 October – Henry Pottinger, soldier and colonial administrator, first Governor of Hong Kong.
- 6 October – Sir Michael O'Loghlen, 1st Baronet, judge, politician and Attorney-General for Ireland.
- Mary Fildes, née Pritchard, political activist.
Deaths
- 9 October – James Hamilton, 8th Earl of Abercorn, politician.
- ;Full date unknown
- :*Frances Greville, poet.
- :*Barry St. Leger, British colonel during the American Revolutionary War.