1762 in Ireland
Events from the year 1762 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- February – Roman Catholic nobility and gentry offer support to King George III in the Seven Years' War in the Iberian Peninsula.
- 20 March – a French privateer takes six ships off Youghal.
- 30 April – acts grant security to Protestants who have acquired property from Catholics.
- Old St. Thomas's Church, Dublin, in Marlborough Street, is completed.
- Watt distillery in Derry is established; it will produce Tyrconnell (whiskey).
Arts and literature
- 14 May – Charles Macklin's The True-Born Irishman is first performed at the Crow Street Theatre in Dublin.
- Approximate date – James Barry paints Baptism of the King of Cashel.
Births
- 11 January – Andrew Cherry, playwright, songwriter, actor and theatrical manager.
- 24 February – Gideon Ouseley, Methodism's 'apostle to the Irish'.
- 20 May – Eyre Coote, British Army officer.
- 1 June – Edmund Ignatius Rice, Roman Catholic missionary and educationalist, founder of the Congregation of Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers.
- 12 June – Chambré Brabazon Ponsonby-Barker, politician.
- 25 December – Michael Kelly, actor, singer and composer.
- Henry Browne Hayes, sheriff and abductor.
- Approximate date – John Chetwode Eustace, Roman Catholic priest and antiquary.
Deaths
- 20 February – Chambré Brabazon Ponsonby, politician.
- 20 March – James Cuffe, landowner.
- 22 March – Courthorpe Clayton, soldier and courtier.
- September
- *Francesco Geminiani, violinist and composer.
- *Seán Ó Murchadha, poet.
- 16 November – John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork, writer.
- 30 December – Robert Blakeney, politician.
- Macnamara Morgan, playwright and barrister.
- Charles Smith, topographer and apothecary.