1771 in Ireland

Events from the year 1771 in Ireland.

Incumbent

 * Monarch: George III

Events

 * 7 August – foundation stone of Clifton House, Belfast, the Belfast Charitable Society's poorhouse, is laid.
 * October – Achmet Borumborad, con-artist, opens a Turkish Baths on Bachelor's Quay (modern day Bachelor's Walk), Dublin.
 * Archbishop Richard Robinson founds the Armagh Public Library.
 * William James of Bailieborough emigrates to the Thirteen Colonies of North America where he will make a great fortune in Albany, New York, and become father of Henry James Sr.

Births

 * 19 July – Thomas Talbot, soldier and politician in Upper Canada (died 1853).
 * 26 October – Juan Mackenna, soldier in Chile (died 1814).
 * William Homan, only Dunlum Baronet (died 1852).
 * Edward Jordan, rebel, fisherman and pirate in Nova Scotia (executed 1809).
 * Edward Kernan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher from 1824 (died 1844).
 * Philip Nolan, horse-trader and freebooter (killed 1801 in the United States).
 * Approximate date
 * Elizabeth Rebecca Edwin née Richards, actress (died 1854).
 * James Bardin Palmer, land agent, lawyer and politician in Prince Edward Island (died 1833).

Deaths

 * 24 September – Arthur Jones-Nevill, Surveyor General of Ireland and politician (born c.1712).
 * 4 November – Charles Lucas, apothecary, physician and radical politician (born 1713).
 * 25 November – Sir Richard Butler, 5th Baronet, politician (born 1699).
 * 18 December – James O'Brien, politician (born 1701?).