1617 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1617 in Ireland.
Events
- 8 May - Title of Baron Hamilton of Strabane in the County of Tyrone created in the Peerage of Ireland for the 13-year-old James Hamilton, Master of Abercorn.
- June - Contention of the bards: Teige MacDaire in a letter to Lughaidh Ó Cléirigh and the northern poets proposes a decisive face-to-face poetic disputation.
- 19 August - Sir Walter Ralegh's last expedition sets out from Cork to cross to South America.
- 17 October - Proclamation ordering banishment of Roman Catholic priests educated abroad.[1]
- The De Barry family moves from Barryscourt Castle near Carrigtwohill to Barrymore Castle in Castlelyons.
- Barnabe Rich publishes The Irish Hubbub, or the English Hue and Crie.
Births
- approx. date
- Roger Boyle, Church of Ireland bishop (died 1687)
- Hezekiah Holland ('Anglo-Hibernus'), Anglican clergyman (d. after 1660)
Deaths
- 29 January - William Butler, alchemist (b. c.1534).
- 10 April - David de Barry, 5th Viscount Buttevant, peer (b. c.1550)[2]
- 10 November - Barnabe Rich, English soldier and writer (b. c.1540)
- Aonghus Ruadh na nAor Ó Dálaigh, poet (born 1550) (murdered)
- Eochaidh Ó hÉoghusa, poet (born 1567)
References
- ^ 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.
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(help) - ^ "David Barry, 5th Viscount Barry". The Peerage. Retrieved 2012-03-26.