{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{More citations needed|date=August 2012}} {{YearInIrelandNav | 1784 }} Events from the year '''1784 in Ireland'''. ==Incumbent== *Monarch: George III ==Events== *11 February – Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland chartered. *15 April – the first ascent of a manned balloon in the British Isles takes place with a hot air balloon at Navan<ref>{{cite web|title=Navan Points of Pride|url=http://www.meath.ie/media/Media,50018,en.pdf|format=PDF|access-date=2012-08-21}}</ref> *The Old Bushmills Distillery becomes an officially registered company *The post of Postmasters General of Ireland established *William Conyngham begins installation of a planned settlement on Rutland Island, County Donegal *New Church of Ireland St. John's Cathedral, Cashel, completed *The satirist John Williams is prosecuted for an attack on the Duke of Rutland's administration in the ''Volunteers' Journal'' and flees the country
==Births== *12 May – James Sheridan Knowles, dramatist and actor (died 1862). *20 September – Sir Richard John Griffith, 1st Baronet, geologist (died 1878). *;Full date unknown<!--This is a description list; please see Help:List before changing--> *:*Richard Church, soldier, military officer and general in the Greek Army (died 1873). *:*Thomas Barnwall Martin, soldier, landowner and politician (died 1847).
==Deaths== *3 April – John Gore, 1st Baron Annaly, politician and peer (born 1718). *26 April – Nano Nagle, founder of the Presentation Sisters (born 1718). *29 May – George Barret, Sr., artist (born c.1730). *Thomas Cooley, architect (born 1740 in England).
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