1717 in Ireland
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The following is a list of events from the year 1717 that occurred in Ireland:
Incumbent
Events
- August 3 â 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 â 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
- April 12 â John Austin, Jesuit (d. 1784)
- September 20 â 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
- September â Ambrose MacDermott, Roman Catholic Bishop of Elphin.
- October 22 â Henry Luttrell, army officer (b. c.1655; shot and mortally wounded in his sedan chair in Dublin)
- December â Richard Hamilton, army officer (b. c.1655)
- James Barry, politician (b. 1659)