{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{YearInIrelandNav|1746}} Events from the year '''1746 in Ireland'''. ==Incumbent== *Monarch: George II ==Events== *19 March – an act of the Parliament of Great Britain prohibits the export of glass from Ireland.<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> *26 March – King George II of Great Britain grants the Dublin Society £500 pa from the Privy Purse.<ref name=Chronology/> *11 April – acts:<ref name=Chronology/> **"for licensing hawkers and pedlars and for the encouragement of English Protestant schools" provides grants for charter schools. **preventing Irish subjects in the service of France or Spain from holding property. **to annul future marriages celebrated by Roman Catholic priests if either (or both) of the parties are Protestant. *June – English preacher John Cennick arrives in Ireland to evangelise for the Moravian Church.<ref name=Chronology/> *8 August – charter for St Patrick's Hospital for Imbeciles to be established in Dublin under the will of Jonathan Swift (died 1745).<ref name=Chronology/> *Charles Smith's ''The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Waterford'' is published in Dublin.<ref name=Chronology/>

==Arts and literature== *The National College of Art and Design originates as a private drawing school set up by the painter Robert West in Dublin.

==Births== *3 July – Henry Grattan, member of Irish House of Commons and campaigner for legislative freedom for the Irish Parliament (died 1820). *Thomas Hussey, diplomat, chaplain, and Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Waterford and Lismore (died 1803).

==Deaths== *22 May – Thomas Southerne, dramatist (born 1660). *8 August – Francis Hutcheson, theologian and philosopher (born 1694).

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