1753 in Ireland

Events

• Renewed dispute over revenue surplus.
• 15 December – Lady Charlotte Cavendish, wife of William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, inherits her family's estates, including Lismore Castle, from her father, Richard Boyle, 4th Earl of Cork, bringing them into the Devonshire family.

  Publications

• Charles O'Conor – Dissertations on the Ancient History of Ireland.

  Births

• 16 November – James McHenry, signer of the United States Constitution from Maryland, third United States Secretary of War
• 22 November – Richard John Uniacke, lawyer, politician, member of Nova Scotia Legislative Assembly and Attorney General of Nova Scotia
• Gilbert Austin, educator, clergyman and author
• John Barrett, clergyman and Hebrew scholar

  Deaths

• 11 January – Hans Sloane, physician and collector
• 14 January – George Berkeley, also known as Bishop Berkeley, philosopher and writer