1677 in Ireland

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See also:	Other events of 1677 List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1677 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: Charles II

• James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, is again sworn in as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.^[1]
• Francis Aungier, 3rd Baron Aungier of Longford, is created 1st Earl of Longford in the Peerage of Ireland.
• Richard Jones, Viscount Ranelagh, is created 1st (and only) Earl of Ranelagh in the Peerage of Ireland.
• Laurence Parsons is created Sir Laurence Parsons, 1st
  Baronetage of Ireland
  .
• Congregation of Propaganda Fide in Rome.^[1]

• Approximate date – Richard FitzWilliam, 5th Viscount FitzWilliam, nobleman and politician (d. 1743)
• 1677 or 1678 – George Farquhar, dramatist (d. 1707)

Deaths

• September – Richard Bellings, lawyer and Confederate politician (b. 1677)
• 14 November – John Temple, judge and politician (b. 1600
  )
• 21 December – John Parry, Church of Ireland Bishop of Ossory
  .
• 31 December – Theobald Taaffe, 1st Earl of Carlingford, Royalist soldier and courtier (b. c.1603
  )
• Francis de Bermingham, Baron Athenry
  .
• Franciscan friar and linguist (b. c.1605
  )
• Probable date – John Lynch (Gratianus Lucius), Roman Catholic priest and historian (b. 1599?)

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