title: 1746 in Ireland
text: # 1746 in Ireland
  
  Events from the year 1746 in Ireland.
  
  ## Incumbent
  
  * Monarch: George II
  
  ## Events
  
  * 19 March – an act of the Parliament of Great Britain prohibits the export of glass from Ireland.
  * 26 March – King George II of Great Britain grants the Dublin Society £500 pa from the Privy Purse.
  * 11 April – acts:
     * "for licensing hawkers and pedlars and for the encouragement of English Protestant schools" provides grants for charter schools.
     * preventing Irish subjects in the service of France or Spain from holding property.
     * to annul future marriages celebrated by Roman Catholic priests if either (or both) of the parties are Protestant.
  * June – English preacher John Cennick arrives in Ireland to evangelise for the Moravian Church.
  * 8 August – charter for St Patrick's Hospital for Imbeciles to be established in Dublin under the will of Jonathan Swift (died 1745).
  * Charles Smith's The Ancient and Present state of Waterford is published in Dublin.
  
  ## Arts and literature
  
  * The National College of Art and Design originates as a private drawing school set up by the painter Robert West in Dublin.
  
  ## Births
  
  * 3 July – Henry Grattan, member of Irish House of Commons and campaigner for legislative freedom for the Irish Parliament (died 1820).
  * Thomas Hussey, diplomat, chaplain, and Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Waterford and Lismore (died 1803).
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 22 May – Thomas Southerne, dramatist (born 1660).
  * 8 August – Francis Hutcheson, theologian and philosopher (born 1694).
  