1729 in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: George II

  Events

• February 3 – the foundation stone is laid for the new Irish Houses of Parliament on College Green in Dublin, designed by Edward Lovett Pearce MP as the world's first purpose-built bicameral legislative building.
• Completion of Castletown House, Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland's first Palladian mansion, designed by Alessandro Galilei and Edward Lovett Pearce for William Conolly, Speaker of the Irish [House of Commons].

  Arts and literature

• Jonathan Swift publishes A Modest Proposal.

  Births

• January 12 – Edmund Burke, statesman
• September 21 – Philip Embury, Methodist
• November 10 – Martin Glynn, Catholic priest
• December 8 – James [Bernard |James Bernard], politician.
• Hercules Langrishe, politician
• Henry Mossop, actor
• Arthur O'Leary, Franciscan
• Mary Woffington, Irish socialite

  Deaths

• March 30 – Jonathan Smedley, Dean of Clogher and Whig satirist
• May 8 – William King, Church of Ireland Archbishop of [Dublin |Archbishop of Dublin] and author
• September 1 – Richard Steele, writer and politician, co-founder of The Spectator magazine
• ;Full date unknown
• :*Sir [Edward Crofton, 2nd Baronet, of The Mote |Sir Edward Crofton, 2nd Baronet, of The Mote], landowner and politician
• :*Aogán Ó Rathaille, Irish language poet