1773 in Ireland
Events from the year 1773 in Ireland.
Incumbent
- Monarch: George III
Events
- Formation of Volunteer corps: the First Magherafelt Volunteers ; and the Offerlane Blues.
Arts and literature
- 15 March – first performance of Oliver Goldsmith's comedy She Stoops to Conquer at the Covent Garden Theatre in London.
- 4 May – Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill composes the keen Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire over the body of her husband Art Ó Laoghaire.
- Thomas Leland publishes The History of Ireland, from the invasion of Henry II.
Births
- 23 July – Abraham Colles, professor of Anatomy, Surgery and Physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
- 19 August – Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry, politician.
- 19 November – Robert Arbuthnot, British military officer.
- 22 November – John George de la Poer Beresford, Archbishop of Armagh .
- ;Full date unknown
- :*William Beatty, Ship's Surgeon on during the Battle of Trafalgar.
- :*Edward Bunting, musician.
- :*John Shaw, Captain in the United States Navy.
Deaths
- 17 April – Arthur Gore, 1st Earl of Arran, politician.
- 19 November – Charles Clinton, French and Indian War Colonel.