1728 in Ireland

Events from the year 1728 in Ireland.

Incumbent

 * Monarch: George II

Events

 * May 6 – Disenfranchising Act, an Act of the Parliament of Ireland, one of a series of Penal Laws, prohibiting all Roman Catholics from voting, receives royal assent.

Arts and literature

 * Matthew Dubourg becomes Master and Composer of State Music of Dublin.

Births

 * August 18 – James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont, statesman, first President of the Royal Irish Academy, president of the volunteer convention in Dublin, 1783 (d. 1799)
 * November 10 – Oliver Goldsmith, writer, poet and physician (d. 1774)
 * Nicholas Sheehy, Roman Catholic priest, opponent of the Penal Laws, executed (d. 1766)

Deaths

 * January 28 – Esther Johnson, friend of Jonathan Swift (b. 1681)
 * Rev. Caleb Threlkeld, botanist (b. 1676)