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1681 in Ireland

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1681 in Ireland

Centuries:
  
15th 16th 17th 18th 19th

Decades:
  
1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s 1700s

Events from the year 1681 in Ireland.

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Events

  • 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; 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.

    • Arts and literature

  • The Dutch portrait painter Ludowyk Smits is active in Dublin.

    • Deaths

  • July 1 - Oliver Plunkett, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland (b.1629) (hanged)

    • References

    1681 in Ireland Wikipedia
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