1677 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1677 in Ireland.

Events

• August 24 - James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, is again sworn in as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.^[1]
• Francis Aungier, 3rd Baron Aungier of Longford, is created 1st Earl of Longford in the Peerage of Ireland.
• Richard Jones, Viscount Ranelagh, is created 1st (and only) Earl of Ranelagh in the Peerage of Ireland.
• Laurence Parsons is created Sir Laurence Parsons, 1st Baronet, of Birr Castle in the King's County, in the Baronetage of Ireland.
• Froinsias Ó Maolmhuaidh's Grammatica Latino-Hibernica nunc compendiata, the first printed grammar of the Irish language (in Latin), is published by the Congregation of Propaganda Fide in Rome.^[1]

Births

• Approximate date - Richard FitzWilliam, 5th Viscount FitzWilliam, nobleman and politician (d. 1743)
• 1677 or 1678 - George Farquhar, dramatist (d. 1707)

Deaths

• September - Richard Bellings, lawyer and Confederate politician (b. 1677)
• November 14 - John Temple, judge and politician (b. 1600)
• December 21 - John Parry, Church of Ireland Bishop of Ossory.
• December 31 - Theobald Taaffe, 1st Earl of Carlingford, Royalist soldier and courtier (b. c.1603)
• Francis de Bermingham, Baron Athenry.
• Froinsias Ó Maolmhuaidh, Franciscan monk and linguist (b. c.1605)
• Probable date - John Lynch (Gratianus Lucius), Roman Catholic priest and historian (b. 1599?)

References

1. 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.