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1729Parliament met in Dublin at the Blue Coat Hospital, in which an attempt was made to vote the supplies for twenty-one years, which was negatived by a majority of one. The building of the Parliament House, College green, commenced. The river on the north side confined by the north wall. Foundations of St. Mark's church and of Ringsend-bridge laid. Linen scarfs worn at funerals to encourage the linen manufacture. 
1730The workhouse converted into an hospital for foundlings. 
1730An intense frost from the end of December to the beginning of February, when the Liffey was frozen over, so that the people amused themselves on the ice. A plague and famine followed. The Parliament House, College-green, finished, at an expense of £40,000. 
1731A music-hall opened in Crow-street on the site where the theatre was afterwards built. The Dublin Society instituted. 
1732The building of the College Library finished. 
1733The custom of burying in wooden shrouds introduced. Interest of money reduced to six per cent. The society for the erection of Protestant schools, commonly called the Charter Schools' Society incorporated. A school built near Clontarf. Theatres opened in Rainsford-street and Aungier-street. The steeple of Trinity College commenced. Steevens' Hospital opened. 
1734Mercer's Hospital, built on the site of St. Stephen's Church, finished. 
1735The fort in the Phoenix-park erected for a magazine. Light ship stationed at Ringsend. 
1741Tyrone House, the mansion of the Marquess of Waterford, built; it now forms part of the buildings of the National Education Institution. The Music Hall, Fishamble-street, opened for concerts. 
1744The Hospital for incurables opened in Fleet-street. 

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