Events from the year 1734 in Ireland. Incumbent Monarch: George II Events 29 April Act prohibits converts from Roman Catholicism to the Church of Ireland from educating their children in the old religion or from becoming Justices of Peace. Act for relief of creditors of failed banks. 19 May – George Berkeley is consecrated as Church of Ireland Bishop of Cloyne. 17 August – Mercer's Hospital for the sick and poor in Dublin is founded under a bequest of Mary Mercer.
Arts and literature March – upper gallery of the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin collapses for the third time. November – George Faulkner begins publication of an edition of Jonathan Swift's Works in Dublin with a corrected text.
Births 25 July – Arthur Gore, 2nd Earl of Arran, politician (d. 1809) Boetius Egan, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam (d. 1798)
Deaths 28 September – James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn (b. c.1661) Richard Cantillon, economic theorist (b. 1680)
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