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1681 in Ireland
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1681
Events from the year 1681 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Monarch: Charles II
Events
alt=Oliver Plunket, by Edward Luttrell|thumb|238x238px|Oliver Plunket, hanged for treason.July 1 – Oliver Plunkett, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, falsely convicted in June of treason, is hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn, London, the last Catholic martyr to die in England;Blessed Oliver Plunket https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12169b.htm Catholic Encyclopedia 1913 2011-03-22 he will be canonised in 1975. Anglo-Irish Catholic intriguer Edward Fitzharris is executed in London on the same day.
September 19 – the Quaker William Bates and a small group of emigrants depart from Dublin aboard Ye Owners Adventure to settle in British America.Lang Carole Ann 1975-10-16 William Bates, a builder of freedom Weekly RetrospectClement John 1877 William Bates Sketches of the first emigrant settlers in Newton Township, Old Gloucester County, West New Jersey https://archive.org/details/sketchesoffirste01clem Camden Sinnickson Chew 23–36
Arts and literature
The Dutch portrait painter Ludowyk Smits is active in Dublin.https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/105581 Smits, Caspar Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie 2012-11-16
Deaths
July 1 – Oliver Plunkett, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland (b.1629) (hanged)
References
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