1761 in Ireland

Events

• 10 November – Protestant "manifesto of intolerance" against Roman Catholics signed in Galway.

  Births

• 20 July – Arthur Gore, 3rd Earl of Arran, politician.
• 17 September – Samuel Neilson, one of the founder members of the Society of United Irishmen and the founder of its newspaper the Northern Star.
• 21 November – Dorothea Jordan, actress and royal mistress.
• ;Full date unknown
• :*Michael Byrne, signed as an able seaman by Captain Bligh on HMS Bounty, primarily to play the fiddle.

  Deaths

• 7 January – Darkey Kelly, brothel-keeper, burned at the stake for murder.
• 10 September – William Blakeney, 1st Baron Blakeney, soldier.