1746 in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: George II

  Events

• 19 March – an act of the Parliament of Great Britain prohibits the export of glass from Ireland.
• 26 March – King George II of Great Britain grants the Dublin Society £500 pa from the Privy Purse.
• 11 April – acts:
• *"for licensing hawkers and pedlars and for the encouragement of English Protestant schools" provides grants for charter schools.
• *preventing Irish subjects in the service of France or Spain from holding property.
• *to annul future marriages celebrated by Roman Catholic priests if either of the parties are Protestant.
• June – English preacher John Cennick arrives in Ireland to evangelise for the Moravian Church.
• 8 August – charter for St Patrick's Hospital for Imbeciles to be established in Dublin under the will of Jonathan Swift.
• Charles Smith's The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Waterford is published in Dublin.

  Arts and literature

• The National College of Art and Design originates as a private drawing school set up by the painter Robert West in Dublin.

  Births

• 3 July – Henry Grattan, member of Irish House of Commons and campaigner for legislative freedom for the Irish Parliament.
• Thomas Hussey, diplomat, chaplain, and Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Waterford and Lismore.

  Deaths

• 22 May – Thomas Southerne, dramatist.
• 8 August – Francis Hutcheson, theologian and philosopher.