1797 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1797 in Ireland.
Events
- May - Henry Grattan retires from the Irish House of Commons.[1]
- Lord Castlereagh is appointed Keeper of the King's Signet for Ireland, a Commissioner of the Treasury for Ireland and a Member of the Privy Council of Ireland.
- Royal Black Institution formed from Orangemen as a Protestant loyalist fraternal society.[2]
Arts and literature
- William Drennan writes the ballad The Wake of William Orr.[3]
Births
- 24 February - Samuel Lover, songwriter, novelist and portrait miniaturist (died 1868).
- 2 June - Joseph Blake, 3rd Baron Wallscourt, socialist (died 1849).
- John Doyle, artist (died 1868).
- Charles C. Ingham, painter and founder of the National Academy of Design in New York City (died 1863).
- Laurence F. Renehan, priest and historian (died 1857).
Deaths
- 9 July - Edmund Burke, statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher (born 1729)
- 11 July - Charles Macklin, actor and dramatist (born 1690).
- 14 October - William Orr, member of the United Irishmen, executed (born 1766).
References
- ↑ Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., ed. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 374.
- ↑ "Our Background". The Royal Black Institution. Imperial Grand Black Chapter. 2001. Retrieved 2013-04-19.
- ↑ McBride, I. R. (2004). "Drennan, William (1754–1820)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/8046. Retrieved 2013-08-19. (subscription or UK public library membership required)