Events from the year 1761 in Ireland.
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edit- 10 November – Protestant "manifesto of intolerance" ("Black Petition") against Roman Catholics signed in Galway.[1]
Births
edit- 20 July – Arthur Gore, 3rd Earl of Arran, politician (died 1837).
- 17 September – Samuel Neilson, one of the founder members of the Society of United Irishmen and the founder of its newspaper the Northern Star (died 1803).
- 21 November – Dorothea Jordan (née Bland), actress and mistress of Prince William, Duke of Clarence, later King William IV (died 1816 in France).
- Full date unknown
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- Michael Byrne, signed as an able seaman by Captain Bligh on HMS Bounty, primarily to play the fiddle.[2]
Deaths
edit- 7 January – Darkey Kelly, brothel-keeper, burned at the stake for murder.
- 10 September – William Blakeney, 1st Baron Blakeney, soldier (born 1672).
References
edit- ^ Hardiman, James (1820). The History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway, from the earliest period to the present time. Dublin.
- ^ Alexander, C. (2003), The Bounty: the True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty ISBN 0-670-03133-X, p. 84