Events from the year 1790 in Ireland.
Incumbents Monarch: George III
Events 15 March – The Sick and Indigent Roomkeepers' Society is established in Dublin; by the 21st century this will be the city's oldest surviving charity. May – construction begins on the Royal Canal at Cross Guns Bridge in Phibsborough, Dublin. Armagh Observatory, founded by Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby, Archbishop of Armagh, begins to function.
Arts and literature Emo Court, near Emo, County Laois, is designed by James Gandon for John Dawson, 1st Earl of Portarlington.
Births 1 January – George Petrie, painter, musician, antiquary and archaeologist (died 1866). 15 April – Theobald Jones, British Royal Navy officer, lichenologist and Unionist politician (died 1868). June – Arthur Jacob, ophthalmologist (died 1874). 10 October – Father Theobald Mathew, temperance reformer (died 1856). Alexander Pearce, transported convict and cannibal (executed 1824 in Van Diemen's Land).
Deaths Patrick Browne, physician and botanist (born 1720).
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