1637 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1637 in Ireland.
Events
- February – Mícheál Ó Cléirigh seeks approbation for the text of the Annals of the Four Masters from Thomas Fleming, Archbishop of Dublin (Roman Catholic), before carrying the manuscript to Leuven.[1]
- May 25 – letters patent authorise 'Laudian statutes' for Trinity College, Dublin.[2]
- July 25 – Christopher Wandesford acquires an estate at Castlecomer, County Kilkenny.[2]
- August 10 – Edward King is drowned in the Irish Sea en route to visiting his family in Ireland, an event which inspires fellow poet Milton's elegy Lycidas.
- December 22 – a charter incorporates the guild of goldsmiths in Dublin[2] and the Dublin Assay Office is established.
Births
- Sir Stephen Rice, lawyer (d. 1715)
- Approximate date – Richard Head, writer and bookseller (d. c.1686)
Deaths
- August 10 – Edward King, poet (b. 1612)
- Sir Nathaniel Catelyn, lawyer and politician (b. c.1580)
gollark: $\mathbb{bee you utterly}$
gollark: Wondrous.
gollark: $\hbox{bee entities}$
gollark: Stop preferring it then.
gollark: That only gets divisibility by 4 again. However, quintopia has managed to attain 8. Muahahahaha.
References
- Cunningham, Bernadette (2010). The Annals of the Four Masters: Irish history, kingship and society in the early seventeenth century. Dublin: Four Courts Press. p. 266. ISBN 978-1-84682-203-2.
- Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
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