1671 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1671 in Ireland.
Events
- January 18 - Royalist Sir Richard Talbot petitions King Charles II on behalf of the Catholic nobility and gentry.[1]
- March 13 - The Parliament of England addresses the King against the growth of popery.[1]
- April 22 - Navigation Act passed by the Parliament of England prohibits direct imports from the English colonies to Ireland.[1]
- May 26 - John O'Mollony is appointed Roman Catholic Bishop of Killaloe.
- June 10 - The King permits Sir George Hamilton to raise a regiment for service in France.[1]
- August 1 - Prince Rupert of the Rhine heads his first commission into land settlement in Ireland.[1]
- August 4 - Viscount Ranelagh undertakes to manage revenues of the Crown in Ireland.
- December 5 - Royal charter granted to The King's Hospital (Blue Coat School) in Dublin.[1]
Births
- Jonathan Smedley, religious opportunist and satirical victim who engaged in polemic with Jonathan Swift and the Tory party (d.1729)
Deaths
- January - Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh, scribe, translator, historian and genealogist (murdered).
- April - William Caulfeild, 1st Viscount Charlemont (b. 1624)
- June - William St Lawrence, 12th Baron Howth (b. 1628)