1770 in Ireland
Events from the year 1770 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- 21 March – the College Historical Society, a debating society at Trinity College Dublin, founded by Edmund Burke, holds its first meeting when Burke's Club merges with the Historical Club.
- Lough Ree Yacht Club is founded as Athlone Yacht Club.
- July – A civil action is brought against Owen Coffee, an attorney from Clonkeen, County Westmeath by Captain Andrew Armstrong of Castle Armstrong, King's County, for having employed Armstrong's runaway East Indian slave, Peter Kent, while he was still his property. Armstrong is awarded £100 damages.
Arts and literature
- John O'Keeffe's play The Giant's Causeway.
Births
- 30 November – Andrew Blayney, 11th Baron Blayney, soldier, politician and peer.
- ;Full date unknown
- :* William Reid Clanny, physician and inventor of the Clanny safety lamp for miners.
- :* James Orr, rhyming weaver poet.
Deaths
- 12 January – James Stopford, 1st Earl of Courtown, politician.
- 12 September – William Annesley, 1st Viscount Glerawly, politician.
- ;Full date unknown
- :* Francis Lucas, naval officer and merchant trader.