Events

• The Irish historian Seathrún Céitinn, known in English as Geoffrey Keating
  Geoffrey Keating
  Seathrún Céitinn, known in English as Geoffrey Keating, was a 17th century Irish Roman Catholic priest, poet and historian. He was born in County Tipperary c. 1569, and died c. 1644...
  
   was appointed Parish Priest of Knockgraffon, near Cahir
  Cahir
  Cahir is a town in South Tipperary in Ireland. The town is best known for its castle and the Swiss Cottage. It is in the barony of Iffa and Offa West.-Location and access:...
  
  , County Tipperary
  County Tipperary
  County Tipperary is a county of Ireland. It is located in the province of Munster and is named after the town of Tipperary. The area of the county does not have a single local authority; local government is split between two authorities. In North Tipperary, part of the Mid-West Region, local...
  
  

Births

• 19 October - James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde
  James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde
  James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde PC was an Irish statesman and soldier. He was the second of the Kilcash branch of the family to inherit the earldom. He was the friend of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, who appointeed him commander of the Cavalier forces in Ireland. From 1641 to 1647, he...
  
  , Anglo-Irish
  Anglo-Irish
  Anglo-Irish was a term used primarily in the 19th and early 20th centuries to identify a privileged social class in Ireland, whose members were the descendants and successors of the Protestant Ascendancy, mostly belonging to the Church of Ireland, which was the established church of Ireland until...
  
   statesman and soldier (d.1688
  1688 in Ireland
  -Events:*7 December - Start of the Siege of Derry. The city gates are locked against the forces of King James II by apprentice boys.-Deaths:*15 March - Peter Valesius Walsh, politician ....
  
  ).