Events from the year 1718 in Ireland.
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Incumbent
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edit- May 2 – the scholar William Nicolson is appointed Bishop of Derry.[1]
- May 10 – the Roman Catholic Bishopric of Emly is united with the Archbishopric of Cashel.
- July–August – the first ships carrying Scotch-Irish emigrants from Ulster to North America arrive in Boston, Massachusetts.[2]
- October 28 – Ashkenazi Jews lease the site for Ballybough Cemetery in Fairview, Dublin, Ireland's first Jewish cemetery.[3]
- Jervis Street Hospital, is founded by six surgeons as the Charitable Infirmary in Cook Street, the first public voluntary hospital in the British Isles.[4][5]
Births
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- March 2 – John Gore, 1st Baron Annaly, politician and peer (d. 1784)
- Nano Nagle, founder of the Presentation Sisters (d. 1784)
Deaths
edit- October 24 – Thomas Parnell, clergyman and poet (b. 1679)
- 1716 or 1718 – Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh, historian (b. 1629)
References
edit- ^ Hayton, D. W. (2004). "Nicolson, William (1655–1727)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/20186. Retrieved 2012-08-22. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "The arrival of "five ships" in August, 1718". Lynx2Ulster. Archived from the original on 2012-01-27. Retrieved 2012-10-11.
- ^ "History of the Jewish Cemetery". Fairview-Marino.com. Archived from the original on 2013-01-22. Retrieved 2013-02-25.
- ^ Widdess, J. D. H. (1968). The Charitable Infirmary, Jervis Street, Dublin, 1718–1968. Dublin.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ O'Brien, Eoin, ed. (1987). The Charitable Infirmary, Jervis Street, 1718–1987: a farewell tribute. Monkstown: Anniversary Press. ISBN 1870940016.