title: 1791 in Ireland
text: # 1791 in Ireland
  
  Events from the year 1791 in Ireland.
  
  ## Incumbent
  
  * Monarch: George III
  
  ## Events
  
  * September – Wolfe Tone publishes Argument on Behalf of the Catholics of Ireland.
  * 14 October – the Northern Whig Club, a group of nine Belfast Presbyterians, meets with Wolfe Tone and Thomas Russell and forms the Society of United Irishmen to press for liberal non-denominational parliamentary reform.
  * 7 November – The Custom House in Dublin opens for business, having been completed under the supervision of James Gandon.
  * The Grand Canal opens to a junction with the Barrow at Athy.
  * The first bridge across the River Foyle at Derry, built by the American Lemuel Cox in wood, is opened to vehicular traffic.
  
  ## Births
  
  * 6 March – John MacHale, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, Irish Nationalist and writer (died 1881).
  * 17 August – Richard Lalor Sheil, politician, writer and orator (died 1851).
  * 14 December – Charles Wolfe, poet (died 1823).
  
  ### Full date unknown
  
  *   * James Graham, soldier, commended for his gallantry during the Battle of Waterloo (died 1845).
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 2 December – Henry Flood, statesman (born 1732).
  
  ### Full date unknown
  
  *   * George Bryan, businessman, statesman and politician in Pennsylvania (born 1731).
  *   * Robert Carver, artist (b. c1730).
  