1717 in Ireland

Events from the year 1717 in Ireland.

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See also:	Other events of 1717 List of years in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: George I

Events

• August 3 – the title Viscount Boyne, in the province of Leinster, is created in the peerage of Ireland in favour of the Scottish military commander Gustavus Hamilton, 1st Baron Hamilton of Stackallan.^[1]
• August 7 – Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, sworn in as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.^[2]
• Hugh MacCurtin's A brief discourse in vindication of the antiquity of Ireland, out of many authentick Irish histories and chronicles (based on Geoffrey Keating's History of Ireland) is published in Dublin^[2] The author is imprisoned in the city about this time.

Births

• April 12 – John Austin, Jesuit (d. 1784)
• September 20 – David Archibald, farmer and politician in Nova Scotia (d. 1795)
• Richard Geoghegan, agriculturalist (d. 1800)
• Lewis Nicola, officer in the American army during the American Revolutionary War (d. 1807)

Deaths

• September – Ambrose MacDermott, Roman Catholic Bishop of Elphin.
• October 22 – Henry Luttrell, army officer (b. c.1655; shot and mortally wounded in his sedan chair in Dublin)
• December – Richard Hamilton, army officer (b. c.1655)
• James Barry, politician (b. 1659)