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| Date | | | | | 1787 | | The Duke of Rutland, lord lieutenant, dies in Dublin; his remains, after lying for some time in state in the Parliament House, were conveyed in a grand funeral procession to the water side to be deposited in the family cemetery in England. Ballast Board incorporated by the name of "The Corporation for preserving and improving the port of Dublin." Foundation of the Military Infirmary, Phoenix-park, laid. Examination Theatre of Trinity College, opened. Western front of the Parliament House erected, cost, £30,000. | | | 1788 | | Act passed to regulate the Theatre Royal, Dublin. Number of houses in Dublin, according to a return of the collectors of hearth money, 14,327 ; population, at an average of eight inhabitants to a house, 114,616. | | | 1789 | | Royal Canal Company incorporated; capital stock, £200,000. Ringsend-bridge, which had been carried away in 1782, rebuilt. Astley's amphitheatre for horsemanship, &c. opened in Peter-street. Abecedarian Society, afterwards called the Literary Teachers' Society, instituted. | | | 1790 | | The first mail-coach in Ireland started from Dublin. Masonic Female Orphan House, Strangers' Friend Society, and Sick and Indigent Room-keepers' Society, and Law Club, Dame-street, instituted. Dublin Library Society, Eustace-street, instituted. | | | 1791 | | New Custom House opened for the despatch of business. Parliament grants £45,000 for constructing docks on the north and south sides of the Liffey. Apothecaries' Hall established. Foundations of Sarah-bridge, near Kilmainham - of Carlisle-bridge - and of the new House of Industry, laid. Navigation of the Grand Canal extended to Athy. First steam engine erected in Dublin. | | | 1792 | | Inundation of the Liffey between Sir John Rogerson's quay and Ringsend, which laid all the low ground there under water, so that boats, as well with Sails as oars, plied on it. The House of Commons burnt. Foundation of the Female Orphan house, North Circular-road, laid; also of the new City Sessions House, Green-street. The Hospital for Incurables removed to the neighbourhood of Donnybrook. Westmoreland Lock Hospital, for the treatment of venereal cases, opened on its site. Association for the Discountenancing of Vice, instituted. | | | 1793 | | Deputation from the Roman Catholics of Ireland to the King, for the removal of their disabilities, proceeded to London from Dublin. Act passed for the relief of the Roman Catholics of Ireland. St. Andrew's church rebuilt in the form of an ellipse. | | | 1794 | | Act for granting to Ireland a share in the monopoly of the East India trade. Charitable Musical Society incorporated. The Sheriffs' Prison, Green-street, commenced. Meath-street Dispensary opened. The meetings of the Historical Society in Trinity College put a stop to by order of the Board of Senior Fellows. | | | 1795 | | Stamp duty imposed on bills of exchange, and promissory notes, and receipts. Act for establishing a parochial watch in the city and suburbs. | | | 1796 | | Foundation of the Commercial Buildings, Dame street, laid. The floating and graving Docks near Ringsend opened. Armed associations of the citizens of Dublin, commonly called yeomanry corps, formed. The new Four Courts, King's Inns-quay, opened. | |
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