1698 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 1698 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch

William III

Events

• Early – William Molyneux publishes The Case of Ireland's being Bound by Acts of Parliament in England, Stated.^[1]
• Famine in the Scottish Borders leads to continued Scottish Presbyterian migration from Scotland to Ulster.
• The Lord Mayor of Dublin's gold chain of office is presented by King William III to Dublin Corporation.
• John Dunton publishes Teague Land: or A Merry Ramble to the Wild Irish.
• John Hopkins publishes the poem The Triumphs of Peace, or the Glories of Nassau … written at the time of his Grace the Duke of Ormond's entrance into Dublin.

Births

• June 15 – George Browne, soldier of fortune, general in the Russian army (d. 1792)
• Ross Roe MacMahon, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, later Archbishop of Armagh (d. 1748)

Deaths

• January 15 – Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington, cavalier and Lord High Treasurer of Ireland (b. 1612)
• January – Dáibhí Ó Bruadair, poet (b. 1625)
• October 11 – William Molyneux, natural philosopher and writer, founded the Dublin Philosophical Society (b. 1656)

Notes and References

1. Web site: James G.. O'Hara. Molyneux, William (1656–1698). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. 2008. 2012-10-15. 10.1093/ref:odnb/18929.