1634 in Ireland

Events

• Foras Feasa ar Éirinn (literally "Foundation of Knowledge on Ireland", more usually translated "History of Ireland") was completed by Geoffrey Keating in Early Modern Irish. This history of Ireland from ancient times was circulated in manuscript as the English rulers of the country suppressed the printing of Irish history.^[1]

Births

• July - Thomas Butler, 6th Earl of Ossory, soldier and politician (d.1680).^[2]
• Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick, member of Irish Parliament, Royalist military officer during the English Civil War and governor of the Province of New York (d.1715).

Deaths

• Walter Butler, 11th Earl of Ormonde (b. c1578).

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