1623 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1623 in Ireland.
Incumbent
[edit]Events
[edit]- January 21 – Viscount Falkland, England's Lord Deputy of Ireland, issues a proclamation ordering all Roman Catholic priests to leave Ireland.
- June 20 – order issued requiring civic officials to take the Oath of Supremacy and enforcing excommunication against those who have relapsed.[1]
- June 29 – Malcolm Hamilton is consecrated Church of Ireland Archbishop of Cashel.[2][3]
Honours
[edit]- February 4 – the Talbot Baronetcy, of Carton in the County of Kildare, is created in the Baronetage of Ireland for the lawyer and politician William Talbot.
- February 21 – the Barnewall Baronetcy, of Crickstown Castle in the County of Meath, is created in the Baronetage of Ireland for Patrick Barnewall.
- May 2 – the Stewart Baronetcy, of Ramelton in the County of Donegal, is created in the Baronetage of Ireland for the soldier William Stewart.
- December 30 – the Newcomen Baronetcy, of Kenagh in the County of Longford, is created in the Baronetage of Ireland for Robert Newcomen.
- The Dungan Baronetcy, of Castletown in the County of Kildare, is created in the Baronetage of Ireland for Walter Dungan.
- The title of Viscount Magennis of Iveagh is created for the chief of the clan Magennis.
Births
[edit]- Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet, soldier, statesman and diplomat (d. 1684)
- Approximate date
- James Lynch (archbishop of Tuam) (d. 1713)
- Hugh Montgomery, 1st Earl of Mount Alexander, soldier (d. 1663)
Deaths
[edit]- Henry Piers, landowner and politician (b. 1568)
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ Cotton, Henry (1851). The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland, Vol. 1, The Province of Munster. Fasti ecclesiae Hiberniae (2nd ed.). Dublin: Hodges and Smith. p. 13.
- ^ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 381. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.