Events from the year 1764 in Ireland.
Arts and literature
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- The English-born painter William Ashford arrives in Dublin; he will spend most of the rest of his life in Ireland.
- 15 February – Charles MacCarthy, soldier in the French, Dutch and British armies, governor in British West Africa (died 1824).
- 24 April – Thomas Addis Emmet, lawyer, politician and United Irishman (died 1827 in the United States).
- 1 June – Marcus Beresford, soldier and politician (died 1803).
- 30 June – Charles Bury, 1st Earl of Charleville, politician (died 1835).
- 21 August – Joseph Rogers, settler in the United States (died 1833).
- 25 August – James Hope, a leader of the United Irishmen in the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and insurrection of 1803 (died 1847).
- 25 November – Henry Charles Sirr, soldier (died 1841).
- Arthur French, politician (died 1820).
- Charles O'Conor, priest and scholar (died 1828).