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HOW IT WORKS
1680 in Ireland
Summary
Events from the year
1680 in Ireland
.
←
1679
1678
1677
1676
1675
1680
in
Ireland
→
1681
1682
1683
1684
1685
Centuries:
15th
16th
17th
18th
19th
Decades:
1660s
1670s
1680s
1690s
1700s
See also:
Other events of 1680
List of years in Ireland
Incumbent
edit
Monarch
:
Charles II
Events
edit
29 April
– construction of the
Royal Hospital Kilmainham
in
Dublin
as a home for retired soldiers begins to the design of Sir
William Robinson
.
[1]
23 July
–
24 July
– trial of
Oliver Plunkett
,
Roman Catholic
Archbishop of Armagh
and
Primate of All Ireland
, at
Dundalk
for conspiracy in the supposed "
Popish Plot
" ends without
indictment
[1]
and on 24 October he is transferred to London.
English
antiquarian
Thomas Dingley
tours Ireland.
[1]
Edmund Borlase
's
The History of the execrable Irish Rebellion
is published.
[1]
Arts and literature
edit
The poem-book
Leabhar Cloinne Aodha Buidhe
is transcribed by Ruairí Ó hUiginn of Sligo at the command of Cormac Ó Neill.
Births
edit
4 October
–
Giles Alington, 4th Baron Alington
(d.
1691
)
Full date unknown
Richard Cantillon
, economic theorist (d.
1734
)
Bernard MacMahon
,
Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher
, later Archbishop of Armagh (d.
1747
)
Approximate date –
Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna
, poet (d.
1756
)
Deaths
edit
30 July
–
Thomas Butler, 6th Earl of Ossory
, soldier and politician (b.
1634
)
23 August
–
Thomas Blood
, soldier, tried to steal the
Crown Jewels of England
from the
Tower of London
in 1671 (b.
1618
)
September or October –
William Steele
,
Lord Chancellor of Ireland
(b.
1610
)
c.
15 November
–
Peter Talbot
, imprisoned
Roman Catholic
Archbishop of Dublin
and
Primate of Ireland
(b.
1620
?)
References
edit
^
a
b
c
d
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
.