1712 in Ireland

Events from the year 1712 in Ireland.

Incumbent

 * Monarch: Anne

Events

 * 12 November – A riot takes place in Dublin during a performance of Nicholas Rowe's Tamerlane a play which supports the Whig view of William III as a justified conqueror of Britain and Ireland. A prologue written by the Whiggish Samuel Garth is read, which inflames Tory and Jacobite opinion.
 * Bridge built over the River Bann at Banbridge.
 * A translation of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer into Irish, made by John Richardson (1664–1747), is published.

Births

 * October 15 – Leslie Corry, politician (d. 1741)
 * October 22 – James Hamilton, 8th Earl of Abercorn, politician (d. 1789)
 * Bartholomew Mosse, surgeon, impresario, founder of the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin (d. 1759)
 * Marcus Paterson, lawyer and politician (d. 1787)
 * approximate date
 * Riggs Falkiner, politician (d. 1797)
 * Arthur Jones-Nevill, politician (d. 1771)

Deaths

 * January 5 – Richard Jones, 1st Earl of Ranelagh, politician (b. 1641)
 * October – Robert Blennerhassett, lawyer (b. 1652)
 * William Edmondson, founder of Quakerism in Ireland (b. 1627)