1790 in Ireland

Events from the year 1790 in Ireland.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: George III

Events

 * 15 March – The Sick and Indigent Roomkeepers' Society is established in Dublin; by the 21st century this will be the city's oldest surviving charity.
 * Armagh Observatory, founded by Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby, Archbishop of Armagh, begins to function.

Arts and literature

 * Emo Court, near Emo, County Laois, is designed by James Gandon for John Dawson, 1st Earl of Portarlington.

Births

 * 1 January – George Petrie, painter, musician, antiquary and archaeologist (died 1866).
 * 15 April – Theobald Jones, British Royal Navy officer, lichenologist and Unionist politician (died 1868).
 * June – Arthur Jacob, ophthalmologist (died 1874).
 * 10 October – Father Theobald Mathew, temperance reformer (died 1856).

Deaths

 * Patrick Browne, physician and botanist (born 1720).