1637 in Ireland
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Events from the year1637 in Ireland.
Incumbent[edit]
Events[edit]
- February –Mícheál Ó Cléirighseeks approbation for the text of theAnnals of the Four MastersfromThomas Fleming,Archbishop of Dublin (Roman Catholic),before carrying the manuscript toLeuven.[1]
- May 25–letters patentauthorise 'Laudianstatutes' forTrinity College Dublin.[2]
- July 25–Christopher Wandesfordacquires an estate atCastlecomer,County Kilkenny.[2]
- August 10–Edward Kingis drowned in theIrish Seaen routeto visiting his family in Ireland, an event which inspires fellow poetMilton's elegyLycidas.
- December 22– acharterincorporates theguildofgoldsmithsinDublin[2]and theDublin Assay Officeis established.
Births[edit]
- SirStephen Rice,lawyer (d.1715)
- Approximate date –Richard Head,writer and bookseller (d. c.1686)
Deaths[edit]
- August 10–Edward King,poet (b.1612)
- SirNathaniel Catelyn,lawyer and politician (b. c.1580)
References[edit]
- ^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.ISBN978-1-84682-203-2.
- ^abcMoody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989).A New History of Ireland.8:A Chronology of Irish History.Oxford University Press.ISBN978-0-19-821744-2.