September 29, 1732Sir Henry Cavendish, politician and master of shorthand, who recorded parliamentary debates, born
September 16, 1732Birth in Castletown, Co. Clare of Thomas OGorman, physician, wine trader and courtier in France; made a chevalier by Louis XV
October 4, 1733Henry Boyle, the future Earl of Shannon, is unanimously elected Speaker of the Irish parliament
March 18, 1736The Irish House of Commons condemns tithe of agistment on pasturage for dry and barren cattle
September 1, 1737Launch of the Belfast Newsletter, now the oldest surviving newspaper in Ireland or Britain, and one of the oldest in the world
October 17, 1738In a duel at Mullingar, Arthur Rochfort, MP for Co. Westmeath, shoots Dillon Pollard Hampson in the stomach, he recovers
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