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Events from the year 1772 in Ireland.

• Monarch: George III

• 3 June – the London-Derry Journal and General Advertiser is first published.
• 27 July – the Johnston Baronetcy, of Gilford in the County of Down, is created in the Baronetage of Ireland.

• 1 May – Lowry Cole, soldier, politician and MP for Enniskillen from 1797 to 1800, Governor of Mauritius and Cape Colony (died 1842).
• 16 July – William Annesley, 3rd Earl Annesley, politician (died 1838).
• 9 October – Mary Tighe, poet (died 1810).^[1]
• Robert Blake, dentist, first State Dentist of Dublin (died 1822).
• Edward Southwell Ruthven, Repealer politician and member of the United Kingdom Parliament (died 1836).

• 10 June – Abraham Creighton, 1st Baron Erne, peer.