1791 in Ireland
# 1791 in Ireland

Events from the year 1791 in Ireland.

## Incumbent

* Monarch: George III

## Events

* September – Wolfe Tone publishes Argument on Behalf of the Catholics of Ireland.
* 14 October – the Northern Whig Club, a group of nine Belfast Presbyterians, meets with Wolfe Tone and Thomas Russell and forms the Society of United Irishmen to press for liberal non-denominational parliamentary reform.
* 7 November – The Custom House in Dublin opens for business, having been completed under the supervision of James Gandon.
* The Grand Canal opens to a junction with the Barrow at Athy.
* The first bridge across the River Foyle at Derry, built by the American Lemuel Cox in wood, is opened to vehicular traffic.

## Births

* 6 March – John MacHale, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, Irish Nationalist and writer (died 1881).
* 17 August – Richard Lalor Sheil, politician, writer and orator (died 1851).
* 14 December – Charles Wolfe, poet (died 1823).

### Full date unknown

*   * James Graham, soldier, commended for his gallantry during the Battle of Waterloo (died 1845).

## Deaths

* 2 December – Henry Flood, statesman (born 1732).

### Full date unknown

*   * George Bryan, businessman, statesman and politician in Pennsylvania (born 1731).
*   * Robert Carver, artist (b. c1730).
