1724 in Ireland

Events from the year 1724 in Ireland

Incumbent

 * Monarch: George I

Events

 * March – Jonathan Swift publishes the first of the Drapier's Letters (A Letter To the Shop-Keepers, Tradesmen, Farmers, and Common-People of Ireland, Concerning the Brass Half-Pence Coined by Mr. Woods).
 * 22 May – a total solar eclipse crosses Ireland around 6:30 p.m.
 * John Neal, an instrument-maker and music publisher based in Christ Church Yard, Dublin, publishes the earliest printed collection of Irish music, which includes pieces by Irish harpist Turlough O'Carolan.

Births

 * March 24 – Richard Hamilton, 4th Viscount Boyne, politician (d. 1789)
 * October 20 – Thomas Taylour, 1st Earl of Bective, politician (d. 1795)
 * Samuel Derrick, hack writer (d. 1769 in England)
 * John Hely, later Hely-Hutchinson, lawyer and statesman (d. 1794)
 * John Pomeroy, British Army officer (d. 1790)
 * Frances Sheridan, novelist and playwright (d. 1766)
 * 1724 or 1725 – Arthur Guinness, brewer (d. 1803)
 * Approximate date
 * Robert Blakeney, politician (d. 1762)
 * Frances Greville née Macartney, poet (d. 1789)
 * Samuel Clossy anatomist (d. [[August 22, 1786 in Dublin, Ireland|1786]])

Deaths

 * February 10 or 1723 – Henry Colley, politician (b. c.1685)
 * November – Liam an Dúna Mac Cairteáin, poet and soldier (b. 1668)
 * John Barnwell, colonist in the Province of South Carolina (b. 1671)
 * Approximate date – Proinsias Ó Doibhlin, poet and priest.