{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{YearInIrelandNav | 1725 }} Events from the year '''1725 in Ireland'''. ==Incumbent== *Monarch: George I ==Events== *June 24 – first recorded meeting of the Grand Lodge of Ireland in Dublin, making it the second most senior Grand Lodge in world Freemasonry, and the oldest in continuous existence.<ref>''Dublin Weekly Journal'' 26 June 1725. {{cite web|title=History of Freemasonry in Ireland|url=http://www.freemasonsnorthmunster.com/Freemasonry_History.htm|work=Freemasonry in North Munster|publisher=Provincial Grand Lodge of North Munster|access-date=2012-08-30}}</ref> *Irish Presbyterian ministers who refuse to subscribe at ordination to the Westminster Confession form the Presbytery of Antrim.
==Births== *May 15 – James Fortescue, politician (d. 1782) *September 27 – Patrick d'Arcy, mathematician (d. 1779) *September 28 ''(possible date)'' – Arthur Guinness, brewer and founder of the Guinness Brewery business and family (d. 1803) *December 20 – John Parr, Governor of Nova Scotia (d. 1791) *Robert Hellen, English-born lawyer and politician (d. 1793) *Alexander McNutt, British Army officer and coloniser of Nova Scotia (d. 1811)
==Deaths== *March 31 – Henry Boyle, 1st Baron Carleton, Chancellor of the Exchequer of England and Lord Treasurer of Ireland (b. 1669) *April 16 – James Barry, politician (b. 1661) *December 26 – Katherine FitzGerald, Viscountess Grandison, heiress (b. 1660) *James Terry, Jacobite officer of arms.
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