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Events from the year 1732 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: George II

Events

• 8 March – report of a House of Lords committee on the 'state of popery'.^[1]
• 10 March – act reduces the interest rate on loans to 6%.^[1]
• Conor Begley and Hugh MacCartin's English-Irish dictionary is published in Paris.^[1]
• Trinity College Library in Dublin, designed by Thomas Burgh, is completed.

Births

• 15 May – John Blaquiere, 1st Baron de Blaquiere, soldier and politician (d. 1812)
• 25 November – Robert Clements, 1st Earl of Leitrim, politician (d. 1804)
• Full date unknown – Henry Flood, statesman (d. 1791)

Deaths

• 3 July (buried) – Mary Davys, novelist, poet and playwright (b. 1674)
• 7 July – John Sale, lawyer and MP (b. circa 1675)
• 2 December – Constantia Grierson, editor, poet and classical scholar (b. 1705)

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