1749 in Ireland

Centuries:	16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th;
Decades:	1720s; 1730s; 1740s; 1750s; 1760s;
See also:	Other events of 1749 ; List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1749 in Ireland.

Incumbent

3 June – radical apothecary Charles Lucas begins publication of The Censor, or Citizens' Journal in Dublin.^[1]
August–September – Charles Wesley makes his second visit to Ireland.^[2]
16 October – the Irish House of Commons threatens Charles Lucas with prosecution and he is forced to flee.^[2]
James Simon's An essay towards an historical account of Irish coins is published in Dublin.^[2]

22 January – John Barclay, soldier, politician, jurist and businessman in America (died 1824)
July – Jocelyn Deane, politician (died 1780)
Robert Barber, quartermaster on HMS Adventure during the second voyage of James Cook (died 1783)
Thomas Burke, artist (died 1815)
William Richardson, landowner and politician (died 1822)
Edward Smyth, sculptor (died 1812)
James Whitelaw, historian, writer, statistician and philanthropist (died 1813)
Approximate date – Brian Merriman, Irish language poet (died 1805)