title: 1760 in Ireland
text: # 1760 in Ireland
  
  Events from the year 1760 in Ireland.
  
  ## Incumbent
  
  * Monarch: George II (until 25 October), then George III
  
  ## Events
  
  * 21–26 February – Battle of Carrickfergus: A force of French troops under the command of privateer François Thurot captures and holds the town and castle of Carrickfergus before retiring; the force is defeated (and Thurot killed) in a naval action in the Irish Sea on 28 February.
  * 25 October – George III becomes King of Great Britain and Ireland upon the death of George II.
  * A Patriot Party under the leadership of Henry Flood, appears in the Irish House of Representatives.
  
  ## Births
  
  * 28 January – Mathew Carey, publisher and economist in the United States (d. 1839).
  * 14 June – George Forbes, 6th Earl of Granard, general (d. 1837).
  * 20 September – John Keating, soldier and land developer (d. 1853).
  * Jerome Alley, clergyman and writer (d. 1826).
  * Thomas Barnes Gough, merchant and politician in Upper Canada (d. 1815).
  * Francis Johnston, architect (d. 1829).
  * James Cavanah Murphy, architect and antiquary (d. 1814).
  * Edmond Stanley, lawyer and politician (d. 1843).
  * Approximate date – Oliver Bond, merchant and revolutionary (d. 1798).
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 26 March – Margaret Woffington, actress (b. c1720).
  * 23 September – Sir Thomas Prendergast, 2nd Baronet, politician.
  * 25 October – George II, King of Great Britain and Ireland; Elector of Hanover; Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (born 1683)
  
  ### Full date unknown
  
  *   * Patrick Cotter O'Brien, known as the Bristol Giant and the Irish Giant (died 1806).
  