Events from the year 1735 in Ireland. Incumbent Monarch: George II Events c. December – Bishop George Berkeley's economic text The Querist begins publication anonymously in Dublin. Construction of the Magazine Fort in Phoenix Park, Dublin, begins. Thomas Carte's An History of the Life of James, Duke of Ormonde begins publication in London.
Arts and literature The first known printed poetry by an Ulster Scots writer (in the Habbie stanza form) is published in a broadsheet in Strabane.
Births
27 February – Thomas Conway, army officer (d. 1795) 19 July – Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington, politician and composer (d. 1781) 22 September – Charles Bingham, 1st Earl of Lucan, politician (d. 1799) William Blakeney, British Army officer and politician (d. 1804) Thomas Busby, soldier and innkeeper (d. 1798) Sir Thomas Butler, 6th Baronet, politician (d. 1772) Patrick Duigenan, lawyer and politician (d. 1816) John McCausland, politician (d. 1804) Edward Dominic O'Brien, British Army officer (d. 1801)
Deaths 25 January – Matthew Clerk, Presbyterian minister (b. 1659) 26 February – Gustavus Hamilton, politician (b. c.1685) 4 March - Mary Mercer (of Mercer's Hospital, Stephen Street, Dublin) 4 August – George St George, 1st Baron St George, politician (b. c.1658) 27 August – Peter Browne, Church of Ireland Bishop of Cork and Ross and writer (b. c.1665)
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