1792 in Ireland

Events

• 20 January – Dublin Corporation, as part of the general debate on Catholic Emancipation, approves by majority vote a resolution to King George III of the United Kingdom stating:
• 11-14 July – Belfast Harp Festival brings together and records the work of most of the remaining traditional players of the clàrsach. It is organised by Dr. James McDonnell, Robert Bradshaw and Henry Joy McCracken and Edward Bunting is one of three musicians to transcribe the music.
• 3-8 December – Catholic convention in Dublin, during which, at the motion of Christopher Dillon Bellew, it is resolved that the petition in favour of emancipation should be presented directly to the King.
• December – eleven people are drowned near the eighth lock of the Grand Canal when an overloaded barge capsizes.
• 14 December – the Society of United Irishmen circulates a pamphlet Address to the Volunteers, written by physician and poet William Drennan, which the authorities consider to be seditious.
• Belfast Reading Society becomes the Belfast Society for Promoting Knowledge, later to become the Linen Hall Library.
• Beamish and Crawford's 'Cork Porter Brewery' is established when William Beamish and William Crawford purchase an existing brewery on a site in Cramer's Lane used for brewing since at least the 17th century.

  Births

• 30 January – John Henry Hopkins, first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont and eighth Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
• 23 April – Thomas Romney Robinson, astronomer and physicist.
• 30 June – William Hamilton Maxwell, novelist.
• 26 September – William Hobson, officer in the British Royal Navy, first Governor-General of New Zealand and co-author of Treaty of Waitangi.
• ;Full date unknown
• :*William Burke, murderer and his accomplice William Hare.
• :*Thomas Deane, architect.
• :*Thomas Colley Grattan, writer.
• :*James Arthur O'Connor, landscape painter.
• :*William Guy Wall, landscape painter.

  Deaths

• 18 February – George Browne, soldier of fortune, field-marshal in the Russian army.
• 10 October – Denis Daly, landowner, MP and Mayor of Galway.