1617_in_Ireland Knowpia

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Events from the year 1617 in Ireland.

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May 8 – title of Baron Hamilton of Strabane in the County of Tyrone created in the Peerage of Ireland for the 13-year-old James Hamilton, Master of Abercorn.
June – Contention of the bards: Teige MacDaire in a letter to Lughaidh Ó Cléirigh and the northern poets proposes a decisive face-to-face poetic disputation.
August 19 – Sir Walter Ralegh's last expedition sets out from Cork to cross to South America.
October 17 – proclamation ordering banishment of Roman Catholic priests educated abroad.^[1]
The De Barry family moves from Barryscourt Castle near Carrigtwohill to Barrymore Castle in Castlelyons.
Barnabe Rich publishes The Irish Hubbub, or the English Hue and Crie.

approx. date
- Roger Boyle, Church of Ireland bishop (d. 1687)
- Hezekiah Holland ('Anglo-Hibernus'), Anglican clergyman (d. after 1660)

^ 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.
^ "David FitzJames De Barry - Irish Biography". www.libraryireland.com. Retrieved 12 January 2021.