title: 1790 in Ireland
text: # 1790 in Ireland
  
  Events from the year 1790 in Ireland.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Monarch: George III
  
  ## Events
  
  * 15 March – The Sick and Indigent Roomkeepers' Society is established in Dublin; by the 21st century this will be the city's oldest surviving charity.
  * Armagh Observatory, founded by Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby, Archbishop of Armagh, begins to function.
  
  ## Arts and literature
  
  * Emo Court, near Emo, County Laois, is designed by James Gandon for John Dawson, 1st Earl of Portarlington.
  
  ## Births
  
  * 1 January – George Petrie, painter, musician, antiquary and archaeologist (died 1866).
  * 15 April – Theobald Jones, British Royal Navy officer, lichenologist and Unionist politician (died 1868).
  * June – Arthur Jacob, ophthalmologist (died 1874).
  * 10 October – Father Theobald Mathew, temperance reformer (died 1856).
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * Patrick Browne, physician and botanist (born 1720).
  