1654 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1654 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- 24 December – William Petty contracts to undertake an accurate survey of Ireland (the "Down Survey").{{cite journal |last1=Aspromourgos |first1=Tony |title=The life of William Petty in relation to his economics: a tercentenary interpretation |journal=History of Political Economy |date=1988 |volume=20 |issue=3 |page=340 |doi=10.1215/00182702-20-3-337 |url=https://read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article-abstract/20/3/337/27843/The-life-of-William-Petty-in-relation-to-his |access-date=6 October 2024|url-access=subscription }}
- English Parliamentarian supporters take control of Galway Corporation, dismissing the previous urban elite as "the Tribes of Galway".
- The Fraternity of Physicians of Trinity Hall, predecessor of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, is established in Dublin by Prof. John Stearne.{{cite book |title=The Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science: Consisting of Original Communications, Reviews, Retrospects, and Reports, Including the Latest Discoveries in Medicine, Surgery, and the Collateral Sciences |date=1846 |publisher=Hodges and Smith |page=289 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-LE1AQAAMAAJ&dq=Fraternity+of+Physicians+of+Trinity+Hall+stearne+%221654%22&pg=PA289 |access-date=6 October 2024 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=History of RCPI |url=https://heritage.rcpi.ie/Exhibitions/History-of-RCPI |website=heritage.rcpi.ie |access-date=6 October 2024}}
- William Edmondson establishes what is probably the first Quaker Meeting in Ireland at his house in Lurgan.{{cite book |last1=Goodbody |first1=Olive C. |last2=Hutton |first2=B. G. |title=Guide to Irish Quaker Records, 1654-1860 |date=1967 |publisher=Stationery Office for the Irish Manuscripts Commission |page=179 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qS5mAAAAMAAJ&q=%22first%22+1654+quaker+ireland+William+Edmundson |access-date=6 October 2024 |language=en}}
- Rathmacknee Castle and lands were confiscated after Thomas Rosseter fought against Oliver Cromwell at Wexford in the Irish Confederate Wars.
Births
- 28 May – Thomas Handcock, politician (d.1726)
- 4 August – Thomas Brodrick, politician (d.1730)
- 11 September – William Handcock, lawyer and politician (d.1701)
- Sir Henry Bingham, 3rd Baronet, lawyer and politician (d.1714)
- Thomas Bligh, politician (d.1710)
Deaths
- 5 May – Thomas Walsh, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel, in exile.
- 12 May – William Tirry, martyred Roman Catholic priest, executed (b.1609)
References
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