1617 in Ireland

Events from the year 1617 in Ireland.

Incumbent

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.{{cite book|editor=Moody, T. W.|title=A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1989|isbn=978-0-19-821744-2|display-editors=etal}}
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.

January 29 – William Butler, alchemist (b. c.1534)
April 10 – David de Barry, 5th Viscount Buttevant, peer{{cite web |title=David FitzJames De Barry - Irish Biography |url=https://www.libraryireland.com/biography/DavidFitzJamesDeBarry.php |website=www.libraryireland.com |access-date=12 January 2021}}
November 10 – Barnabe Rich, English soldier and writer (b. c.1540)
Aonghus Ruadh na nAor Ó Dálaigh, poet (b. 1550) (murdered)
Eochaidh Ó hÉoghusa, poet (b. 1567)