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1694 in Ireland
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1694
Events from the year 1694 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Monarch: William III and Mary II (until 28 December)
Events
French Huguenot refugees settle in Portarlington.
28 December – with the death of Queen Mary II, William III becomes sole monarch.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8
Arts and literature
9 January – Henry Purcell's ode Great Parent, Hail! and John Blow's anthem I Beheld, and Lo! are performed in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, at a concert to mark the centenary of Trinity College.Moody, T. W. A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History Oxford University Press 1989 978-0-19-821744-2 etal
c. 25 October – Jonathan Swift is appointed to the Church of Ireland prebend of Kilroot, near Carrickfergus in County Antrim (until 1696).
Births
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16 July – Marcus Beresford, 1st Earl of Tyrone, politician (d. 1763)
8 August – Francis Hutcheson, theologian and philosopher (d. 1746)
5 November – Sir Robert Blackwood, 1st Baronet (d. 1774)
Michael Cuffe, politician (d. 1744)
Andrew Donlevy, Roman Catholic priest.
William FitzMaurice, 2nd Earl of Kerry, peer and military officer (d. 1747)
Warden Flood, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland (d. 1764)
Robert Parkinson, lawyer and politician (d. 1761)
Deaths
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July 1 – Justin McCarthy, Viscount Mountcashel, Jacobite general.
28 December – Mary II of England, Queen regnant (b. 1662)
c. December – Patrick Adair, Ulster Scots Presbyterian minister (b. c. 1625)
Valentine Browne, 1st Viscount Kenmare, peer (b. 1638)
Probable date – Sir Brian O'Neill, 2nd Baronet, judge and landowner.
References
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