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1678 in Ireland
Summary
Events from the year
1678 in Ireland
.
←
1677
1676
1675
1674
1673
1678
in
Ireland
→
1679
1680
1681
1682
1683
Centuries:
15th
16th
17th
18th
19th
Decades:
1650s
1660s
1670s
1680s
1690s
See also:
Other events of 1678
List of years in Ireland
Incumbent
edit
Monarch
:
Charles II
Events
edit
11 October
–
Peter Talbot
,
Roman Catholic
Archbishop of Dublin
and
Primate of Ireland
, having returned to Ireland in May, is arrested near
Maynooth
on the orders of
James Butler, Duke of Ormonde
,
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
, for supposed complicity in the "
Popish Plot
" and imprisoned in
Dublin Castle
.
[1]
The vacant
Bishopric of Leighlin
is given to the
Bishop of Kildare
to form the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin
.
About 1,200 Irish families sail from
Barbados
to
Virginia
and the
Carolinas
.
Births
edit
26 September
–
Peter Lacy
, soldier, imperial commander in
Russia
(d.
1751
)
1677 or 1678 –
George Farquhar
, dramatist (d.
1707
)
Deaths
edit
23 August
–
Nicholas French
, Bishop of Ferns, political activist and pamphleteer (b.
1604
)
References
edit
^
Clavin, Terry (2004). "Talbot, Peter (1618/1620–1680)".
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
. Oxford University Press.
doi
:10.1093/ref:odnb/26937
. Retrieved
2012-08-30
.
(subscription or UK public library membership required)