1769 in Ireland

Events

• 15 July – the Royal Hibernian Military School, founded in Dublin to educate orphaned children of members of the British armed forces in Ireland, is granted its Royal charter.
• November – River Shannon made navigable from Killaloe to Roosky above Lough Ree.

  Births

• 1 May – the Hon. Arthur Wesley, later Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, soldier and statesman.
• May – Nicholas Tuite MacCarthy, Jesuit preacher.
• 18 June – Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, politician, represented the United Kingdom at the Congress of Vienna.
• 28 July – Hudson Lowe, British military leader.
• 23 December – Martin Archer Shee, painter.
• Approximate date – Gorges Lowther, politician.

  Deaths

• 23 January – Thomas Fortescue, politician.
• 19 September – Robert MacCarty, Viscount Muskerry, Royal Navy officer.
• 20 November – Charles Gardiner, landowner and politician.
• James Daly, politician.