1638 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1638 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: Charles I

Events

• January 13 – proclamation enforcing the monopoly on tobacco held by the Lord Deputy of Ireland, Sir Thomas Wentworth.^[1]

Arts and literature

• January 1 – James Shirley's comedy The Royal Master is premiered at the Werburgh Street Theatre, Dublin.

Births

• Valentine Browne, 1st Viscount Kenmare, peer (d. 1694)

Deaths

• June 14 – Claud Hamilton, 2nd Baron Hamilton of Strabane (b. c.1606)^[2]

References

1. Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
2. Cokayne, G. E.; Gibbs, Vicary; Doubleday, H. A.; White, Geoffrey H.; Warrand, Duncan; Howard de Walden, Thomas Scott-Ellis, eds. (2000), The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, vol. XII/1 (new (reprint) ed.), Stroud: Alan Sutton Publishing, p. 319, ISBN 978-0-904387-82-7