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See also:	Other events of 1718 ; List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1718 in Ireland.

Incumbent

May 2 – the scholar William Nicolson is appointed Bishop of Derry.^[1]
May 10 – the Roman Catholic Bishopric of Emly is united with the Archbishopric of Cashel.
July–August – the first ships carrying Scotch-Irish emigrants from Ulster to North America arrive in Boston, Massachusetts.^[2]
October 28 – Ashkenazi Jews lease the site for Ballybough Cemetery in Fairview, Dublin, Ireland's first Jewish cemetery.^[3]
Jervis Street Hospital, is founded by six surgeons as the Charitable Infirmary in Cook Street, the first public voluntary hospital in the British Isles.^[4]^[5]

^ Hayton, D. W. (2004). "Nicolson, William (1655–1727)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/20186. Retrieved 2012-08-22. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "The arrival of "five ships" in August, 1718". Lynx2Ulster. Archived from the original on 2012-01-27. Retrieved 2012-10-11.
^ "History of the Jewish Cemetery". Fairview-Marino.com. Archived from the original on 2013-01-22. Retrieved 2013-02-25.
^ Widdess, J. D. H. (1968). The Charitable Infirmary, Jervis Street, Dublin, 1718–1968. Dublin.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ O'Brien, Eoin, ed. (1987). The Charitable Infirmary, Jervis Street, 1718–1987: a farewell tribute. Monkstown: Anniversary Press. ISBN 1870940016.