1678 in Ireland

none 1678 Events from the year 1678 in Ireland. Incumbent Monarch: Charles II Events 11 October – Peter Talbot, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland, having returned to Ireland in May, is arrested near Maynooth on the orders of James Butler, Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, for supposed complicity in the "Popish Plot" and imprisoned in Dublin Castle.Terry Clavin Talbot, Peter (1618/1620–1680) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26937 2012-08-30 10.1093/ref:odnb/26937 The vacant Bishopric of Leighlin is given to the Bishop of Kildare to form the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin. Births 26 September – Peter Lacy, soldier, imperial commander in Russia (d.1751) 1677 or 1678 – George Farquhar, dramatist (d.1707) Deaths 23 August – Nicholas French, Bishop of Ferns, political activist and pamphleteer (b.1604) References 1678 Category:1670s in Ireland Ireland Category:Years of the 17th century in Ireland