1706 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1706 in Ireland.

Events

• November 21 - The Cox Baronetcy, of Dunmanway in the County of Cork, is created in the Baronetage of Ireland in favour of Richard Cox, Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
• Ulster Scots clergyman Francis Makemie organizes the first presbytery in British America.
• John O'Heyne's Epilogus chronologicus exponens (a history of the Dominican Order in Ireland) is published in Louvain.

Arts and literature

• April 8 - George Farquhar's Restoration comedy The Recruiting Officer first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in London.^[1][2]

Births

• John FitzGerald, politician and hereditary Knight of Kerry (d. 1741)
• approx. date - Matthew Deane, politician (d. 1751)

Deaths

• April 10 - Arthur Chichester, 3rd Earl of Donegall, soldier (b. 1666) (killed in action)
• John Hayes, Member of Parliament for Doneraile
• Ambrose Aungier, 2nd and last Earl of Longford of the First Creation

References

1. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
2. Redgrave, Corin (2003-09-11). "My season with Sam". The Independent (London). Retrieved 2011-01-15.