1765 in Ireland

Events

• Coercion Act against the Whiteboys.
• First Magdalene asylum in Ireland opens on Leeson Street in Dublin, founded by Lady Arabella Denny.
• Gracehill established in County Antrim as a Moravian community.

  Arts and literature

• Sculptor Christopher Hewetson settles in Rome.

  Births

• 14 January – George Knox, politician.
• 13 April – Thomas Wallace, politician.
• 19 July – George Beresford, Church of Ireland Bishop of Kilmore.
• 6 December – Edward O'Reilly, scholar.
• 29 December - Laurence Hynes Halloran, alleged criminal deported to Australia
• Robert Holmes, barrister and nationalist.
• Samuel Turner, barrister and informer.
• Approximate date – Charles Bourke, priest.

  Deaths

• 24 November – William Dunkin, poet.
• 26 November – Sir Edward O'Brien, 2nd Baronet, politician.
• 29 December – John Alexander, minister and writer.
• 31 December – Samuel Madden, clergyman, writer and benefactor.