1793 in Ireland
Events from the year 1793 in Ireland.
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Events
- January – delegates of the Catholic Convention, including Wolfe Tone and Christopher Dillon Bellew, present a petition in favour of Catholic emancipation to King George III and the Home Secretary, Henry Dundas, in person and are favourably received.
- April
- *Roman [Catholic Relief Act 1793] relieves Catholics of certain political, educational and economic disabilities: they may now vote, enter the legal professions and hold certain public offices. They are also, under the Militia Act (Ireland) 1793, permitted to bear arms; and both Roman Catholics and Protestant Dissenters are permitted to enter Trinity College Dublin. Any man renting or owning land worth at least forty shillings, is granted the franchise, creating a class of Forty Shilling Freeholders.
- *Construction commences on the first bridge across the River Suir at Waterford, built by the American Lemuel Cox in wood.
- Gunpowder Act and Convention Act effectively bring an end to the Irish Volunteers.
- 83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment of Foot raised for service in the French Revolutionary Wars by Colonel William Fitch.
- Cathedral of the Most [Holy Trinity, Waterford], the oldest Catholic cathedral in Ireland, is built.
- Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh 's semi-mythical history of Ireland, Ogygia: seu Rerum Hibernicarum Chronologia & etc., is for the first time translated into English and published as Ogygia, or a Chronological account of Irish Events, collected from Very Ancient Documents faithfully compared with each other & supported by the Genealogical & Chronological Aid of the Sacred and Profane Writings of the Globe.
Births
- 3 April – Dionysius Lardner, scientific writer.
- 12 August – James Muspratt, chemical manufacturer in Britain.
- ;Full date unknown
- :*Andrew Clarke, soldier, Governor of Western Australia.
- :*John Benjamin Macneill, railway engineer.
Deaths
- Charlotte Brooke, writer.
- Elizabeth Griffith, dramatist, writer and actress.
- Lucy Hartstonge, philanthropist.