Events from the year 1726 in Ireland. Incumbent Monarch: George I Events October 27 – Rev. Dr. Caleb Threlkeld publishes Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum .....Dispositarum sive Commentatio de Plantis Indigenis praesertim Dublinensibus instituta in Dublin, the first flora of Ireland.
Arts and literature October 26 – Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is published in London
Births
April – Thomas Browne, 4th Viscount Kenmare, landowner and politician (d. 1795) May 20 – John Browne, 1st Baron Kilmaine, politician (d. 1794) October 15 – Isaac Barré, soldier and politician (d. 1802) Full date unknown – Dorcas Blackwood, 1st Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye, née Stevenson (d. 1807) Approximate date – Eyre Coote, East India Company military officer (d. 1783)
Deaths May 20 – Nicholas Brady, Anglican divine and poet (b. 1659) Sean na Sagart, né John O'Mullowny, priest hunter and murderer under the penal laws, killed (b. c1690) Bryan Townsend, Royal Navy officer and politician (b. c1660)
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