1763 in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: George III

  Events

• April – a presbytery of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland, separate from that in Scotland, is organised.
• 16 April – John Butler is appointed Roman Catholic Bishop of Cork.
• September – a loaded barge passes from Belfast to Lisburn inaugurating the Lagan Navigation.
• 10 September – the Freeman's Journal newspaper begins publication in Dublin, established by three merchants under the management of Henry Brooke with contributions by the radical politician Charles Lucas and initially in support of the Protestant Ascendancy.

  Births

• 1 February – Thomas Campbell, Presbyterian minister.
• 21 March – William James MacNeven, physician and writer.
• 20 May – William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington, politician.
• 20 June – Wolfe Tone, leading figure in the United Irishmen and the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
• 4 July – Arthur O'Connor, United Irishman and later general in Napoleon's army.
• 15 October – Lord Edward FitzGerald, soldier, explorer space United Irishman active in the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
• Christopher Dillon Bellew, landowner and campaigner for Catholic emancipation.
• Denis Browne, politician.
• William Higgins, chemist.
• John Moore, President of the Republic of Connacht during the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
• Alexander Pope, actor and miniature painter.

  Deaths

• 4 April – Marcus Beresford, 1st Earl of Tyrone, politician.
• 3 September – Thomas Carter, politician.
• Dudley Bradstreet, adventurer.
• James MacGeoghegan, Roman Catholic priest and historian.