{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{YearInIrelandNav | 1775 }} Events from the year '''1775 in Ireland'''.

==Incumbent== *Monarch: George III

==Events== *Henry Flood accepts a seat on the Privy Council of Ireland and becomes vice-treasurer.<ref name="TM">{{cite book|editor1=Moody, T. W. |editor2=Martin, F. X. |year=1967|title=The Course of Irish History|publisher=Mercier Press|location=Cork|page=373}}</ref> *Henry Grattan enters the Parliament of Ireland and becomes leader of the "patriot party".<ref name="TM"/> *Approximate date – Dark Hedges planted. * November – the 90ft tall round tower adjoining the Church of St Michael le Pole in Dublin is damaged in "the great storm of 1775", and subsequently demolished for safety in 1778.<ref name= ArchiSa>{{Cite web |last=Clerkin | first=Paul | url=https://www.archiseek.com/st-michael-le-pole-dublin/ |title=12th C. - St Michael le Pole, Dublin |date=2013-01-12 |access-date=2025-06-22 |website=archiseek.com}}</ref>

==Arts and literature== *17 January – Richard Brinsley Sheridan's first play, the comedy of manners ''The Rivals'', is premiered at the Covent Garden Theatre, London. *Robert Jephson's tragedy ''Braganza'' is first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London.

==Births== *3 March – Henry Prittie, 2nd Baron Dunalley, politician (died 1854). *25 April – William Warren Baldwin, doctor, businessman, lawyer, judge, architect and political figure in Upper Canada (died 1844). *6 August – Daniel O'Connell, politician, campaigner for Catholic emancipation and Repeal of the Union (died 1847). *30 September – Robert Adrain, scientist and mathematician in America (died 1843). *;Full date unknown<!--This is a description list; please see Help:List before changing--> *:*Bernard McMahon, horticulturalist in the United States (died 1816). *:*William Thompson, political and philosophical writer and social reformer (died 1833).

==Deaths== *27 April – John Rutty, Quaker physician and naturalist (born c. 1697 in England). *31 December – Richard Montgomery, soldier, major general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War (born 1738). *Probable date – Elizabeth Aldworth, freemason (born 1693/5).

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