1729 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1729 in Ireland.
Events
- February 3 – the foundation stone is laid for the new Irish Houses of Parliament on College Green in Dublin, designed by Edward Lovett Pearce MP as the world's first purpose-built bicameral legislative building.
- Completion of Castletown House, Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland's first Palladian mansion, designed by Alessandro Galilei and Edward Lovett Pearce for William Conolly, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons.[1]
Arts and literature
- Jonathan Swift publishes A Modest Proposal.
Births
- January 12 – Edmund Burke, statesman (d. 1797)
- September 21 – Philip Embury, Methodist (d. 1775)
- November 10 – Martin Glynn, Catholic priest (executed 1794)
- December 8 – James Bernard, politician (d. 1790).
- Hercules Langrishe, politician (d. 1811)
- Henry Mossop, actor (d. 1773?)
- Arthur O'Leary, Franciscan (d. 1802)
Deaths
- March 30 – Jonathan Smedley, Dean of Clogher and Whig satirist (b. 1671)
- May 8 – William King, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin and author (b. 1650)
- September 1 – Richard Steele, writer and politician, co-founder of The Spectator magazine (b. 1672)
- Full date unknown
- Sir Edward Crofton, 2nd Baronet, of The Mote, landowner and politician (b. c. 1662)
- Aogán Ó Rathaille, Irish language poet (b. c. 1675)
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References
- "About Castletown House". Office of Public Works. Archived from the original on 2012-03-17. Retrieved 2012-03-20.
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