1741 in Ireland

Events from the year 1741 in Ireland.

Incumbent

 * Monarch: George II

Events

 * January–April – Great Irish Famine (1740–1741) at its height.
 * June–August – hot summer. The harvest is improved, but disease encouraged.
 * 2 October – the Bull's Head Musical Society opens a Music Hall in Fishamble Street, Dublin.
 * 18 November – the composer George Frideric Handel arrives in Dublin to give a series of concerts.
 * Commencement of construction of obelisk and other works on Killiney Hill (overlooking Dublin Bay) by John Mapas to relieve poverty.
 * Completion of rebuilding of Powerscourt House in County Wicklow by the architect Richard Cassels.

Births

 * 23 June – William Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty, politician and statesman (died 1805).
 * 4 October – Edmond Malone, Shakespeare scholar and literary critic (died 1812).
 * 11 October – James Barry, painter (died 1806).
 * Approximate date – Bryan Higgins, chemist (died 1818)

Deaths

 * 16 March – Thomas FitzMaurice, 1st Earl of Kerry, politician (born 1668).
 * John Ussher, soldier and politician (born 1682).