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1654 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1654 in Ireland.

Incumbent

  • Lord Protector: Oliver Cromwell

Events

  • 24 December – William Petty contracts to undertake an accurate survey of Ireland (the "Down Survey").
  • 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.
  • William Edmondson establishes what is probably the first Quaker Meeting in Ireland at his house in Lurgan.
  • 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

References

  1. (1988). "The life of William Petty in relation to his economics: a tercentenary interpretation". History of Political Economy.
  2. (1846). "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". Hodges and Smith.
  3. "History of RCPI".
  4. (1967). "Guide to Irish Quaker Records, 1654-1860". Stationery Office for the Irish Manuscripts Commission.
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