1724 in Ireland

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See also:	Other events of 1724 ; List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1724 in Ireland

Incumbent

March – Jonathan Swift publishes the first of the Drapier's Letters (A Letter To the Shop-Keepers, Tradesmen, Farmers, and Common-People of Ireland, Concerning the Brass Half-Pence Coined by Mr. Woods).^[1]
22 May – a total solar eclipse crosses Ireland around 6:30 p.m.
John Neal, an instrument-maker and music publisher based in Christ Church Yard, Dublin, publishes the earliest printed collection of Irish music, which includes pieces by Irish harpist Turlough O'Carolan.^[2]

March 24 – Richard Hamilton, 4th Viscount Boyne, politician (d. 1789)
October 20 – Thomas Taylour, 1st Earl of Bective, politician (d. 1795)
Samuel Derrick, hack writer (d. 1769 in England)
John Hely, later Hely-Hutchinson, lawyer and statesman (d. 1794)
John Pomeroy, British Army officer (d. 1790)
Frances Sheridan, novelist and playwright (d. 1766)
1724 or 1725 – Arthur Guinness, brewer (d. 1803)
Approximate date
- Robert Blakeney, politician (d. 1762)
- Frances Greville née Macartney, poet (d. 1789)
- Samuel Clossy anatomist (d. 1786)

^ Scott, Temple (1903). "Letter 1, Introductory Note". The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, vol. VI: The Drapier's Letters. London: George Bell and Sons.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Bardon 2015, p. 14.

Bardon, Jonathan (2015). Hallelujah - The Story of a Musical Genius and the City That Brought his Masterpiece to Life. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. ISBN 978-0717163540.