1776 in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: George III

  Events

• 3 February – proclamation imposing an embargo on export of provisions from Ireland to secure supplies for the British Army fighting in the American Revolutionary War.
• 4 April – act of the Parliament of Ireland to prevent "tumultuous risings", directed against the Whiteboys.
• 4 July – United States Declaration of Independence signed in Philadelphia. Eight of the signatories are Irish American, three having been born in Ireland. This night, Strabane-born John Dunlap prints copies at his shop in the city.

  Births

• 3 July – Henry Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton, politician..
• 1 August – Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford, MP, Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada and Governor General of British North America.
• 11 September – Thomas Arbuthnot, British military officer.
• 1 October – Augustus Warren Baldwin, naval officer and political figure in Upper Canada.

  Deaths

• 25 September – Thomas Burke, Roman Catholic Bishop of Ossory.