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1696 in Ireland 
Summary
Events from the year 1696 in Ireland.
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Incumbent edit
Events edit
- April 27 – an act of the Parliament of England for encouraging linen manufacture in Ireland allows plain linen to be exported to England without an import tariff being applied.[1]
- Famine in the Scottish Borders leads to a new wave of Scottish Presbyterian migration from Scotland to Ulster.
Births edit
- December 1 – Francis Burton, politician (d. 1744)
- Sir Edward Barry, 1st Baronet, physician and politician (d. 1776)
- Thomas Drennan, Presbyterian minister (d. 1768)
- Approximate date – James Latham, portrait painter (d. 1747)
- Abraham Shackleton, Quaker (d. 1771)[2]
Deaths edit
- March 18 – Bonaventure Baron, Franciscan theologian (b. 1610)
- May 9 – Henry Capell, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1638)
- October? – Sir Oliver St George, 1st Baronet, politician.
- December 8 – Sir Charles Porter, Lord Chancellor of Ireland (b. 1631)
- Daibhidh Ó Duibhgheannáin, scribe and poet (b. before 1651)