1618 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 1618 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch

James I

Events

• 23 January – Charter of Waterford revoked after election of recusants (restored 1626).^[1]
• 19 February – Richard Wingfield is created first Viscount Powerscourt.
• 1 October – native Irish ordered to leave lands of the British Plantation of Ulster by 1 May 1619 or be fined.^[1]
• 1 December – Captain Nicholas Pynnar begins his Survey of the Escheated Counties of Ulster.^[1]

Publications

• Aodh Mac Cathmhaoil (Hugh MacCaghwell or Hugo Cavellus) publishes Irish: Scáthán Shacramuinte na hAthridhe (or Latin: Tractatus de poenitentia et indulgentiis) in Irish at Louvain.^[1]

Births

• Thomas Blood, soldier who tries to steal the Crown Jewels of England from the Tower of London in 1671 (d. 1680)

Deaths

• Richard Stanihurst, translator, poet and historian (b. 1547)

Notes and References

1. Book: Moody, T. W.. A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. 1989. 978-0-19-821744-2. etal.