1741 in Ireland

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Events

January–April - Great Irish Famine (1740-1741) at its height.^[1]
June–August - Hot summer. The harvest is improved, but disease encouraged.^[1]
2 October - The Bull's Head Musical Society opens a Music Hall in Fishamble Street, Dublin.^[2]
18 November - The composer George Frideric Handel arrives in Dublin to give a series of concerts.^[3]
Commencement of construction of obelisk and other works on Killiney Hill (overlooking Dublin Bay) by John Mapas to relieve poverty.^[1]
Completion of rebuilding of Powerscourt House in County Wicklow by the architect Richard Cassels.

23 June - William Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty, politician and statesman (died 1805).
4 October - Edmond Malone, Shakespeare scholar and literary critic (died 1812).
11 October - James Barry, painter (died 1806).
Approximate date - Bryan Higgins, chemist (died 1818)

1 2 3 Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
↑ de Courcy, J.W. (1996). The Liffey in Dublin. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. p. 468. ISBN 0-7171-2423-1.
↑ Burrows, Donald (2004). "Handel, George Frideric (1685–1759)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online (October 2007) ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/12192. Retrieved 2013-02-26. (subscription or UK public library membership required)

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