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1637 in Ireland
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1637
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.The Annals of the Four Masters: Irish history, kingship and society in the early seventeenth century 266 Bernadette Cunningham Dublin Four Courts Press 2010 978-1-84682-203-2
May 25 – letters patent authorise 'Laudian statutes' for Trinity College Dublin.Moody, T. W. A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History Oxford University Press 1989 978-0-19-821744-2 etal
July 25 – Christopher Wandesford acquires an estate at Castlecomer, County Kilkenny.
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 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)
References
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