1792 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1792 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: George III

We feel ourselves peculiarly called upon to stand forward in the crisis to pray your majesty to preserve the Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland inviolate...^[1]

• 20 February – Parliament House, Dublin, catches fire during a legislative session. "Although in imminent danger of the roof falling in," it is noted later, "the House did not adjourn until a proper motion had been put and carried in the affirmative."^[2]
• 11–14 July –
  clàrsach. It is organised by Dr. James McDonnell, Robert Bradshaw and Henry Joy McCracken^[3] in the Assembly Rooms, Belfast, and Edward Bunting is one of three musicians to transcribe the music.^[4]
• 3–8 December – Catholic convention in Dublin, during which, at the motion of Christopher Dillon Bellew, it is resolved that the petition in favour of emancipation should be presented directly to the King.
• December (date unknown) – eleven people are drowned near the eighth lock of the Grand Canal when an overloaded barge capsizes.
• 14 December – the
  seditious.^[5]
• Belfast Reading Society becomes the Belfast Society for Promoting Knowledge, later to become the Linen Hall Library.
• Beamish and Crawford's 'Cork Porter Brewery' is established when William Beamish and William Crawford purchase an existing brewery (from Edward Allen) on a site in Cramer's Lane used for brewing since at least the 17th century.^[6]

Births

• 30 January –
  Episcopal Church in the United States of America (died 1868 in the United States
  ).
• 23 April – Thomas Romney Robinson, astronomer and physicist (died 1882).
• 30 June – William Hamilton Maxwell, novelist (died 1850).
• 26 September (probable date) – William Hobson, officer in the British Royal Navy, first Governor-General of New Zealand and co-author of Treaty of Waitangi (died 1842 in New Zealand).

  Full date unknown

  • William Burke, murderer (hanged 1829 in Scotland) and (possibly) his accomplice William Hare.
  • Thomas Deane, architect (died 1871).
  • Thomas Colley Grattan, writer (died 1864).
  • James Arthur O'Connor, landscape painter (died 1841).
  • William Guy Wall, landscape painter (died 1864 in the United States).

Deaths

• 18 February – George Browne, soldier of fortune, field-marshal in the Russian army (born 1698).
• 10 October –
  MP and Mayor of Galway (born 1747
  ).