1790 in Ireland
# 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).
