1693 in Ireland
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Events from the year1693 in Ireland.
Incumbent
[edit]Events
[edit]- 1 February– the8th King's Royal Irish Hussarsare raised by ColonelHenry Conynghamas Conyngham'sdragoons.[1]
- 9 March– theHouse of Commons of Englandpresents an address to KingWilliam IIIcomplaining of mismanagement of Irish affairs. TheLord Lieutenant of Ireland,Viscount Sydney,is recalled on 13 June and administration left in the hands of Lords Justices.[2]
- Huguenot cemetery, Dublin,is established.[3]
Arts and literature
[edit]- Vertue rewarded, or The Irish princess,an earlyromance novelset in Clonmel during theWilliamite War in Ireland,is published inLondon.[4]
Births
[edit]- 13 August–Gustavus Handcock,politician (d.1751)
Deaths
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- January –Edward FitzGerald-Villiers,soldier (b. c.1654)
- 19 July(29 July,New Style) –John Barrett,soldier, killed in the French service at theBattle of Landen.
- 21 August–Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan,Jacobiteand soldier (b. c.1660)
- Peter French,Dominicanmissionary and theologian.
References
[edit]- ^Duane, William (1810).A Military Dictionary.p.140.
- ^Moody, 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.
- ^Poyntz, Right Rev. Dr. Samuel (1997-12-02),The Huguenots of Lisburn: Tha Story of the Lost Colony,Lisburn,retrieved2006-08-20
- ^McDermott, Hubert (Summer 1986). "Vertue Rewarded: The First Anglo-Irish Novel".Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review.75(298). Irish Province of the Society of Jesus: 177–185.JSTOR30090731.