1676 in Ireland

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Events

• 31 July - The title Viscount Lanesborough is first created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of George Lane, 2nd Baronet, of Tulsk.
• Froinsias Ó Maolmhuaidh's Lucerna fidelium, seu, Fasciclus decerptus ab authoribus magis versatis qui tractarunt de doctrin a Christiana (Lochrann na gCreidmheach), an Irish language catechism of Catholic Church doctrine is published by the Congregation of Propaganda Fide in Rome.^[1]

Births

• William Handcock, politician (d. 1723).
• John Rogerson, lawyer and politician (d. 1741).
• Owen Swiny, theatrical impresario and art dealer (d. 1754).
• Caleb Threlkeld, botanist (d. 1728).
• approximate date - John Moore, 1st Baron Moore, politician (d. 1725).

Deaths

• John-Baptist Hackett, Dominican theologian.
• Richard Lynch, Jesuit theologian (b. 1611).

References