1698 in Ireland

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1698
in
Ireland

Centuries:
  • 15th
  • 16th
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
Decades:
  • 1670s
  • 1680s
  • 1690s
  • 1700s
  • 1710s
See also:Other events of 1698
List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1698 in Ireland.

Incumbent[]

  • Monarch: William III

Events[]

  • Early – William Molyneux publishes The Case of Ireland's being Bound by Acts of Parliament in England, Stated.[1]
  • Famine in the Scottish Borders leads to continued Scottish Presbyterian migration from Scotland to Ulster.
  • The Lord Mayor of Dublin's gold chain of office is presented by King William III to Dublin Corporation.
  • John Dunton publishes Teague Land: or A Merry Ramble to the Wild Irish.
  • John Hopkins publishes the poem The Triumphs of Peace, or the Glories of Nassau … written at the time of his Grace the Duke of Ormond's entrance into Dublin.

Births[]

George Browne
  • June 15George Browne, soldier of fortune, general in the Russian army (d. 1792)
  • Ross Roe MacMahon, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, later Archbishop of Armagh (d. 1748)

Deaths[]

Richard Boyle
  • January 15Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington, cavalier and Lord High Treasurer of Ireland (b. 1612)
  • January – Dáibhí Ó Bruadair, poet (b. 1625)
  • October 11William Molyneux, natural philosopher and writer, founded the Dublin Philosophical Society (b. 1656)

References[]

  1. ^ O'Hara, James G. (2008). "Molyneux, William (1656–1698)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/18929. Retrieved 2012-10-15. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
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