1726 in Ireland

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)
 * Full date unknown
 * Isaac Barré, soldier and politician (d. 1802)
 * Dorcas Blackwood, 1st Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (d. 1807)
 * Sir Eyre Coote, KB, soldier (d. 1783)

Deaths

 * May 20 – Nicholas Brady, Anglican divine and poet (b. 1659)
 * Sean na Sagart, priest hunter in Penal Times (b. c1690)
 * Bryan Townsend (Irish politician)