1637 in Ireland

Events from the year 1637 in Ireland.

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Centuries:
  • 15th
  • 16th
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
Decades:
  • 1610s
  • 1620s
  • 1630s
  • 1640s
  • 1650s
See also:Other events of 1637
List of years in Ireland

Incumbent
  • Monarch: Charles I

Events
  • February – Mícheál Ó Cléirigh seeks approbation for the text of the Annals of the Four Masters from Thomas Fleming, Archbishop of Dublin (Roman Catholic), before carrying the manuscript to Leuven.[1]
  • May 25 – letters patent authorise 'Laudian statutes' for Trinity College Dublin.[2]
  • July 25 – Christopher Wandesford acquires an estate at Castlecomer, County Kilkenny.[2]
  • August 10 – Edward King is drowned in the Irish Sea en route to visiting his family in Ireland, an event which inspires fellow poet Milton's elegy Lycidas.
  • December 22 – a charter incorporates the guild of goldsmiths in Dublin[2] and the Dublin Assay Office is established.

Births
  • Sir Stephen Rice, lawyer (d. 1715)
  • Approximate date – Richard Head, writer and bookseller (d. c.1686)

Deaths
  • August 10 – Edward King, poet (b. 1612)
  • Sir Nathaniel Catelyn, lawyer and politician (b. c.1580)

References
  1. Cunningham, Bernadette (2010). The Annals of the Four Masters: Irish history, kingship and society in the early seventeenth century. Dublin: Four Courts Press. p. 266. ISBN 978-1-84682-203-2.
  2. 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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