1793 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1793 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: George III

• January – delegates of the Catholic Convention, including
  George III and his Home Secretary, Henry Dundas, in person and are favourably received.^[1]
• April
  • Forty Shilling Freeholders
    .
  • Construction commences on the first bridge across the River Suir at Waterford, built by the American Lemuel Cox in wood.

• Gunpowder Act and Convention Act effectively bring an end to the Irish Volunteers.^[2]
• 83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment of Foot raised for service in the French Revolutionary Wars by Colonel William Fitch.
• Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity, Waterford, the oldest Catholic cathedral in Ireland, is built.
• Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh (Roderic O'Flaherty)'s semi-mythical history of Ireland, Ogygia: seu Rerum Hibernicarum Chronologia & etc. (1685
  ), is for the first time translated into English (by Rev. James Hely) and published as Ogygia, or a Chronological account of Irish Events, collected from Very Ancient Documents faithfully compared with each other & supported by the Genealogical & Chronological Aid of the Sacred and Profane Writings of the Globe.

• 3 April – Dionysius Lardner, scientific writer (died 1859).
• 12 August – James Muspratt, chemical manufacturer in Britain (died 1886).

  Full date unknown

  • Andrew Clarke, soldier, Governor of Western Australia (died 1847).
  • John Benjamin Macneill, railway engineer (died 1880).

Deaths

• Charlotte Brooke
  , writer (b.c1740).
• Elizabeth Griffith, dramatist, writer and actress (b.c1727).
• Lucy Hartstonge, philanthropist (b.c1722).

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