{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{YearInIrelandNav | 1742 }} Events from the year '''1742 in Ireland'''. [[File:Musick-hall-dublin.jpg|thumb|The Great Music Hall in Fishamble Street, Dublin, scene of the first performance of Handel's ''Messiah'']] ==Incumbent== *Monarch: George II ==Events== * c. March – Newry Canal opened.<ref>{{cite book|first=Ruth|last=Delany|title=A celebration of 250 years of Ireland's Inland Waterways|location=Belfast|publisher=Appletree Press|year=1986|isbn=0-86281-200-3}}</ref> On 28 March the ''Cope'' brings the first load of Tyrone coal carried from Lough Neagh to Dublin by this route.<ref name=Chronology>{{cite book|editor=Moody, T. W.|title=A New History of Ireland. '''8''': A Chronology of Irish History|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1989|isbn=978-0-19-821744-2|display-editors=etal}}</ref> * 13 April – first performance of Handel's ''Messiah'' staged at Neal's Music Hall in Fishamble Street, Dublin<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml|title=BBC History British History Timeline|access-date=2007-09-03|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070909012414/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml|archive-date=9 September 2007<!--Added by DASHBot-->}}</ref> in aid of local charities. Matthew Dubourg leads the orchestra. Handel leaves Ireland on 13 August.

==Births== *John Prendergast Smyth, 1st Viscount Gort, politician (died 1817).

==Deaths== *September 27 – Hugh Boulter, Anglican Primate of All Ireland (born 1672) *;Full date unknown<!--This is a description list; please see Help:List before changing--> *:*James Arbuckle, poet and critic (born 1700).

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