Events from the year 1717 in Ireland.
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Incumbent
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edit- August 3 – the title Viscount Boyne, in the province of Leinster, is created in the peerage of Ireland in favour of the Scottish military commander Gustavus Hamilton, 1st Baron Hamilton of Stackallan.[1]
- August 7 – Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, sworn in as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.[2]
- Hugh MacCurtin's A brief discourse in vindication of the antiquity of Ireland, out of many authentick Irish histories and chronicles (based on Geoffrey Keating's History of Ireland) is published in Dublin[2] The author is imprisoned in the city about this time.
Births
edit- April 12 – John Austin, Jesuit (d. 1784)
- September 20 – David Archibald, farmer and politician in Nova Scotia (d. 1795)
- Richard Geoghegan, agriculturalist (d. 1800)
- Lewis Nicola, officer in the American army during the American Revolutionary War (d. 1807)
Deaths
edit- September – Ambrose MacDermott, Roman Catholic Bishop of Elphin.
- October 22 – Henry Luttrell, army officer (b. c.1655; shot and mortally wounded in his sedan chair in Dublin)
- December – Richard Hamilton, army officer (b. c.1655)
- James Barry, politician (b. 1659)
References
edit- ^ "No. 5561". The London Gazette. 3 August 1717. p. 1.
- ^ a b Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.