{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{YearInIrelandNav | 1724 }} Events from the year '''1724 in Ireland''' ==Incumbent== *Monarch: George I ==Events== *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'').<ref>{{cite book|last=Scott|first=Temple|title=The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, vol. '''VI''': The Drapier's Letters|chapter=Letter 1, Introductory Note|location=London: George Bell and Sons|year=1903}}</ref> *22 May – a total solar eclipse crosses Ireland around 6:30&nbsp;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.{{sfn|Bardon|2015|page=14}}

==Births== [[File:Arthur Guinness.jpg|thumb|150px|Arthur Guinness]] *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. [https://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/life-society/science-technology/irish-scientists/clossy-samuel/ August 22], 1786 in Dublin, Ireland)

==Deaths== *February 10 or 1723 – Henry Colley, politician (b. c.1685) *November – Liam an Dúna Mac Cairteáin, poet and soldier (b. 1668) *John Barnwell, colonist in the Province of South Carolina (b. 1671) *Approximate date – Proinsias Ó Doibhlin, poet and priest.

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=== Sources === {{refbegin}} * {{cite book |last=Bardon |first=Jonathan |title=Hallelujah - The Story of a Musical Genius and the City That Brought his Masterpiece to Life |year=2015 |publisher= Gill and Macmillan |location=Dublin |isbn=978-0717163540|author-link= Jonathan Bardon}} {{refend}}

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