1718 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1718 in Ireland.
Contents
Events
- May 2 - The scholar William Nicolson is appointed Bishop of Derry.[1]
- May 10 - The Roman Catholic Bishopric of Emly is united with the Archbishopric of Cashel.
- July–August - The first ships carrying Scotch-Irish emigrants from Ulster to North America arrive in Boston, Massachusetts.[2]
- October 28 - Ashkenazi Jews lease the site for Ballybough Cemetery in Fairview, Dublin, Ireland's first Jewish cemetery.[3]
- Jervis Street Hospital, Dublin, is founded by six surgeons as the Charitable Infirmary in Cook Street, the first public voluntary hospital in the British Isles.[4][5]
Births
- March 2 - John Gore, 1st Baron Annaly, politician and peer (d. 1784)
- Nano Nagle, founder of the Presentation Sisters (d. 1784)
Deaths
- October 24 - Thomas Parnell, clergyman and poet (b. 1679)
- 1716 or 1718 - Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh, historian (b. 1629)
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