June – publication in London of S–t contra omnes: an Irish miscellany containing the first printing of Jonathan Swift's satire on the Parliament of Ireland, "A character, panegyric, and description of the Legion Club".[1]
July 27 – riots in east London protesting at Irish immigrants to England providing cheap labour.[2]
October 6 – James Hamilton begins publication of the Dublin Daily Advertiser.[1]
James Gallagher, Roman CatholicBishop of Raphoe, publishes Sixteen Irish Sermons, in an easy and familiar stile, on useful and necessary subjects, in English characters, as being the more familiar to the generality of our Irish clergy in Dublin.[1]
