1637 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 1637 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch

Charles I

Events

• February – Mícheál Ó Cléirigh seeks approbation for the text of the Annals of the Four Masters from Thomas Fleming, Archbishop of Dublin (Roman Catholic), before carrying the manuscript to Leuven.^[1]
• May 25 – letters patent authorise 'Laudian statutes' for Trinity College Dublin.^[2]
• July 25 – Christopher Wandesford acquires an estate at Castlecomer, County Kilkenny.^[2]
• August 10 – Edward King is drowned in the Irish Sea en route to visiting his family in Ireland, an event which inspires fellow poet Milton's elegy Lycidas.
• December 22 – a charter incorporates the guild of goldsmiths in Dublin^[2] and the Dublin Assay Office is established.

Births

• Sir Stephen Rice, lawyer (d. 1715)
• Approximate date – Richard Head, writer and bookseller (d. c.1686)

Deaths

• August 10 – Edward King, poet (b. 1612)
• Sir Nathaniel Catelyn, lawyer and politician (b. c.1580)

Notes and References

1. Book: Cunningham, Bernadette. The Annals of the Four Masters: Irish history, kingship and society in the early seventeenth century. 266. Dublin. Four Courts Press. 2010. 978-1-84682-203-2.
2. 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.