1617 in Ireland

Events from the year 1617 in Ireland.

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Centuries:
  • 15th
  • 16th
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
Decades:
  • 1590s
  • 1600s
  • 1610s
  • 1620s
  • 1630s
See also:Other events of 1617
List of years in Ireland

Incumbent
  • Monarch: James I

Events
  • May 8 – 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.
  • August 19 – Sir Walter Ralegh's last expedition sets out from Cork to cross to South America.
  • October 17 – 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 (d. 1687)
    • Hezekiah Holland ('Anglo-Hibernus'), Anglican clergyman (d. after 1660)

Deaths
  • January 29 – William Butler, alchemist (b. c.1534)
  • April 10 – David de Barry, 5th Viscount Buttevant, peer[2]
  • November 10 – Barnabe Rich, English soldier and writer (b. c.1540)
  • Aonghus Ruadh na nAor Ó Dálaigh, poet (b. 1550) (murdered)
  • Eochaidh Ó hÉoghusa, poet (b. 1567)

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.
  2. "David FitzJames De Barry - Irish Biography". www.libraryireland.com. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
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