1700 in Ireland
Incumbent
Events
- December 28 – Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.{{cite book|author=John Cannon|title=A Dictionary of British History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_iJBc0IZh24C|year=2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-158022-2}}{{cite book|title=Court-Register and Statesmans Remembrancer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6qE9AAAAcAAJ|year=1782|publisher=G. Robinson|page=66}}
Arts and literature
- c. March – the Yellow Book of Lecan is acquired by antiquary Edward Lhuyd.
- An edition of the late 16th-century Scots poet Alexander Montgomerie's The Cherrie and the Slae is printed in Ulster.
Births
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- James Arbuckle, poet and critic (d. 1742){{cite book|author1=Leslie Stephen|author2=Sir Sidney Lee|title=Dictionary of National Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9vc-AQAAMAAJ|volume=2|year=1885|publisher=Macmillan|page=58}}
- Daniel O'Reilly, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher (d. 1778)
- James Stopford, 1st Earl of Courtown, politician (d. 1770)
- William O'Brien, 4th Earl of Inchiquin, peer and politician (d. 1777)