1797 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 1797 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch

George III

Events

• May – Henry Grattan retires from the Irish House of Commons.^[1]
• Lord Castlereagh is appointed Keeper of the King's Signet for Ireland, a Commissioner of the Treasury for Ireland and a Member of the Privy Council of Ireland.
• Royal Black Institution formed from Orangemen as a Protestant loyalist fraternal society.^[2]

Arts and literature

• William Drennan writes the ballad The Wake of William Orr.^[3]

Births

• 24 February – Samuel Lover, songwriter, novelist and portrait miniaturist (died 1868).
• 2 June – Joseph Blake, 3rd Baron Wallscourt, socialist (died 1849).
• 20 November – Tyrone Power, actor, comedian, author and theatrical manager (died 1841).
• John Doyle, artist (died 1868).
• Charles C. Ingham, painter and founder of the National Academy of Design in New York City (died 1863).
• Laurence F. Renehan, priest and historian (died 1857).

Deaths

• 9 July – Edmund Burke, statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher (born 1729)
• 11 July – Charles Macklin, actor and dramatist (born 1690).
• 14 October – William Orr, member of the United Irishmen, executed (born 1766).

Notes and References

1. Book: Moody, T. W. . Martin, F. X. . 1967. The Course of Irish History. Mercier Press. Cork. 374.
2. Web site: Our Background. The Royal Black Institution. Imperial Grand Black Chapter. 2001. 2013-04-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20130414074533/http://www.royalblack.org/background.html. 14 April 2013. dead.
3. Web site: I. R.. McBride. Drennan, William (1754–1820). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. 2004. Online. 10.1093/ref:odnb/8046.