1739 in Ireland

• Monarch: George II ==Events==

• 27 April – the trial of Henry Barry, 4th Baron Barry of Santry, before the Irish House of Lords for the drunken murder of a tavern servant in Palmerstown the previous summer opens; he is convicted but later pardoned. • July–August – wet summer, affecting the harvest and the cutting of turf. • 26 September – "Address of the Roman Catholics of Ireland" to George II of Great Britain requesting longer leases. ==Births==

• 27 September – Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry, politician (d. 1821) • 31 October – James Gordon, merchant, soldier, and politician in America (d. 1810) Full date unknown • Judge Fulton, judge, surveyor, politician, and founder of the village of Bass River, Nova Scotia (d. 1826) • Hugh Kelly, dramatist and poet (d. 1777) • Hugh O'Reilly, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher (d. 1801) ==Deaths==

• Charles Jervas, painter, translator and art collector (b. c.1675) ==References==