1752 in Ireland

Events

• 1 May – commissioners for the promotion of inland navigation in Ireland are incorporated.
• c. July – Methodist church opens in Whitefriar Street, Dublin.
• 28 August – Belfast Charitable Society, established to open the poorhouse which will become Clifton House, Belfast, first meets.
• 3–13 September inclusive – these dates are omitted from the calendar in Great Britain and Ireland as part of the adoption of the Gregorian calendar, correcting the discrepancy between Old Style and New Style dates, under terms of the Calendar Act 1750.
• The Church of Ireland Bishoprics of Killaloe and Kilfenora are united under the Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora.
• Rev. Richard Pococke makes an extended tour of Ireland.

  Births

• 30 July – Valentine Quin, 1st Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer
• Leonard McNally, informant against members of the Society of United Irishmen

  Deaths

• 8 January – John Blunden, politician
• 17 July – Arthur Price, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Cashel
• 29 July – Sir Peter Warren, Royal Navy officer
• 3 October – Frederick Trench, politician