title: 1769 in Ireland
text: # 1769 in Ireland
  
  Events from the year 1769 in Ireland.
  
  ## Incumbent
  
  * Monarch: George III
  
  ## 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 (Lough Derg) to Roosky above Lough Ree.
  
  ## Births
  
  * 1 May – the Hon. Arthur Wesley, later Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, soldier and statesman (died 1852).
  * May – Nicholas Tuite MacCarthy, Jesuit preacher (died 1833).
  * 18 June – Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, politician, represented the United Kingdom at the Congress of Vienna (died 1822).
  * 28 July – Hudson Lowe, British military leader (died 1844).
  * 23 December – Martin Archer Shee, painter (died 1850).
  * Approximate date – Gorges Lowther, politician (died 1854).
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 23 January – Thomas Fortescue, politician (born 1683).
  * 19 September – Robert MacCarty, Viscount Muskerry, Royal Navy officer (born 1698).
  * 20 November – Charles Gardiner, landowner and politician (born 1720).
  * James Daly, politician (born c.1716).
  