1777 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1777 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: George III

• 25 January – John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, is sworn in as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.^[1]
• 19 February – the
  Hercules Langrishe, Member of Parliament for Knocktopher in the Irish House of Commons.^[2]
• 29 May – the
  Palmer Baronetcy, of Castle Lackin in the County of Mayo, is created in the Baronetage of Ireland for Roger Palmer.^[3]
• Summer – the code duello is adopted at the Clonmel Assizes as the form for pistol duels by gentlemen in Ireland.
• Rev. Thomas Campbell publishes the first edition of A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland in a series of letters to John Watkinson, M.D. anonymously in London.

Arts and literature

• 15 April – first performance of
  John O'Keeffe's play The Shamrock at the Crow Street Theatre
  in Dublin. The playwright moves to London this year.
• 8 May – first performance of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy of manners The School for Scandal at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London.^[4]

Births

• 17 March –
  Brontë sisters
  (died 1861).
• 4 May –
  Governor of New South Wales, Australia from 1831 to 1837 (died 1855
  ).
• 22 June – William Brown, creator and first admiral of the Argentine Navy (died 1857).
• 12 August - Chichester Fortescue, who briefly served as an Irish Member of Parliament (died 1826).

Deaths

• 3 February – Hugh Kelly, dramatist and poet (born 1739).
• 18 July – William O'Brien, 4th Earl of Inchiquin, peer and politician (born 1700).

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