1737 in Ireland
# 1737 in Ireland

This article lists events from the year 1737 in Ireland.

## Incumbent

* Monarch: George II

## Events

* April 9 – William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire, appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in succession to Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset (sworn 7 September).
* August 29 – proclamation reducing the ratio of gold to silver in coins of Ireland to conform with the British standard.
* September 1 – The News Letter is first published in Belfast by Francis Joy, making it the world's oldest existing English language newspaper.

## Births

* April 18 – William Hazlitt, Unitarian minister and writer (d. 1820)
* May 2 – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, British Whig statesman, Home Secretary in 1782 and Prime Minister 1782–1783 (d. 1805)
* May 14 – George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, statesman, colonial administrator and diplomat (d. 1806)
* Christopher Hewetson, sculptor (d. c.1798)
* Joseph Wall, British army officer, colonial governor and murderer (d. 1802)

## Deaths

* August 7 – Hugh MacMahon, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, later Archbishop of Armagh (b. 1660)
* November – Sir Gerard Lally, Jacobite and French military officer.
* John Neale, influential Dublin music publisher and musical instrument maker.
