1797 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1797 in Ireland.

Incumbent[]

  • Monarch: George III

Events[]

  • May – Henry Grattan retires from the Irish House of Commons.[1]
  • Lord Castlereagh is appointed Keeper of the King's Signet for Ireland, a Commissioner of the Treasury for Ireland and a Member of the Privy Council of Ireland.
  • Royal Black Institution formed from Orangemen as a Protestant loyalist fraternal society.[2]

Arts and literature[]

  • William Drennan writes the ballad The Wake of William Orr.[3]

Births[]

  • 24 February – Samuel Lover, songwriter, novelist and portrait miniaturist (died 1868).
  • 2 June – Joseph Blake, 3rd Baron Wallscourt, socialist (died 1849).
  • 20 November – Tyrone Power, actor, comedian, author and theatrical manager (died 1841).
  • John Doyle, artist (died 1868).
  • Charles C. Ingham, painter and founder of the National Academy of Design in New York City (died 1863).
  • Laurence F. Renehan, priest and historian (died 1857).

Deaths[]

  • 9 July – Edmund Burke, statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher (born 1729)
  • 11 July – Charles Macklin, actor and dramatist (born 1690).
  • 14 October – William Orr, member of the United Irishmen, executed (born 1766).

References[]

  1. ^ Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 374.
  2. ^ "Our Background". The Royal Black Institution. Imperial Grand Black Chapter. 2001. Archived from the original on 14 April 2013. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  3. ^ McBride, I. R. (2004). "Drennan, William (1754–1820)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/8046. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
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