1726 in Ireland
Events from the year 1726 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- October 27 – Rev. Dr. Caleb Threlkeld publishes Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum.....Dispositarum sive Commentatio de Plantis Indigenis praesertim Dublinensibus instituta in Dublin, the first flora of Ireland.
Arts and literature
- October 26 – Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is published in London
Births
- April – Thomas Browne, 4th Viscount Kenmare, landowner and politician
- May 20 – John Browne, [1st Baron Kilmaine], politician
- October 15 – Isaac Barré, soldier and politician
- Full date unknown – Dorcas Blackwood, 1st Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye, née Stevenson
- Approximate date – Eyre Coote (East [India Company officer)|Eyre Coote], East India Company military officer
Deaths
- May 20 – Nicholas [Brady (poet)|Nicholas Brady], Anglican divine and poet
- Sean na Sagart, né John O'Mullowny, priest hunter and murderer under the penal laws, killed
- Bryan [Townsend (Irish politician)|Bryan Townsend], Royal Navy officer and politician