title: 1784 in Ireland
text: # 1784 in Ireland
  
  Events from the year 1784 in Ireland.
  
  ## Incumbent
  
  * Monarch: George III
  
  ## Events
  
  * 11 February – Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland chartered.
  * 15 April – the first ascent of a manned balloon in the British Isles takes place with a hot air balloon at Navan
  * The Old Bushmills Distillery becomes an officially registered company
  * The post of Postmasters General of Ireland established
  * William Conyngham begins installation of a planned settlement on Rutland Island, County Donegal
  * New Church of Ireland St. John's Cathedral, Cashel, completed
  * The satirist John Williams is prosecuted for an attack on the Duke of Rutland's administration in the Volunteers' Journal and flees the country
  
  ## Births
  
  * 12 May – James Sheridan Knowles, dramatist and actor (died 1862).
  * 20 September – Sir Richard John Griffith, 1st Baronet, geologist (died 1878).
  
  ### Full date unknown
  
  *   * Richard Church, soldier, military officer and general in the Greek Army (died 1873).
  *   * Thomas Barnwall Martin, soldier, landowner and politician (died 1847).
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 3 April – John Gore, 1st Baron Annaly, politician and peer (born 1718).
  * 26 April – Nano Nagle, founder of the Presentation Sisters (born 1718).
  * 29 May – George Barret, Sr., artist (born c.1730).
  * Thomas Cooley, architect (born 1740 in England).
  