1749 in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: George II

  Events

• 3 June – radical apothecary Charles Lucas begins publication of The Censor, or Citizens' Journal in Dublin.
• August-September – Charles Wesley makes his second visit to Ireland.
• 16 October – the Irish House of Commons threatens Charles Lucas with prosecution and he is forced to flee.
• James Simon's is published in Dublin.

  Births

• 22 January – John Barclay, soldier, politician, jurist and businessman in America
• July – Jocelyn Deane, politician
• Robert Barber, quartermaster on HMS Adventure during the second voyage of James Cook
• Thomas Burke, artist
• William Richardson, landowner and politician
• Edward Smyth, sculptor
• James Whitelaw, historian, writer, statistician and philanthropist
• Approximate date – Brian Merriman, Irish language poet

  Deaths

• 3 January – John Ussher, politician
• 22 January – Matthew Concanen, writer, poet and lawyer
• 20 February – Usher Gahagan, classical scholar.
• May – Samuel Boyse, poet
• 21 September – Sir John Bingham, 5th Baronet, politician
• Approximate date – Eamonn Laidir Ó Flaithbertaigh, Jacobite.