1728 in Ireland

Events

• May 6 – Disenfranchising Act, an Act of the Parliament of Ireland, one of a series of Penal Laws, prohibiting all Roman Catholics from voting, receives royal assent.

  Arts and literature

• Matthew Dubourg becomes Master and Composer of State Music of Dublin.

  Births

• August 18 – James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont, statesman, first President of the Royal Irish Academy, president of the volunteer convention in Dublin, 1783
• November 10 – Oliver Goldsmith, writer, poet and physician
• Nicholas Sheehy, Roman Catholic priest, opponent of the Penal Laws, executed

  Deaths

• January 28 – Esther Johnson, friend of Jonathan Swift
• Rev. Caleb Threlkeld, botanist