1704 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1704 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: Anne

Events

• March 4 – Penal laws passed by the Parliament of Ireland to suppress the Catholic Church:
  • Popery Act enforces various restrictions on Catholics, in particular inheritance by gavelkind for Catholics and male primogeniture for Protestants, which tends to prevent an increase in Catholic landholding.^[1]
  • Registration Act requires all existing Catholic priests to register in their local magistrates' court by July 20, to pay two £50 surety bonds for good behavior, and to stay in the county where they registered, with a financial inducement to convert to the Church of Ireland.^[2]
• October 26 – Richard Levinge, member of the Irish House of Commons, is created 1st Levinge Baronet, of High Park in the County of Westmeath.^[3]
• Thomas Taylor, member of the Irish House of Commons, is created 1st Taylor Baronet, of Kells in the County of Meath.
• A House of Industry opens in Dublin to accommodate the destitute.^[4]

Arts and literature

• George Farquhar co-writes the play The Stage Coach.^[5]
• Jonathan Swift publishes his first major satires, A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books, in London.^[6]

Births

• William Handcock, politician (d. 1741)

Deaths

• January 1 – Dominic Burke Roman Catholic Bishop of Elphin.
• February 20 – Thomas FitzWilliam, 4th Viscount FitzWilliam, statesman (b. c.1640)
• c. February – Sir Thomas Butler, 3rd Baronet, politician.
• August – Francis Taaffe, 3rd Earl of Carlingford, courtier and soldier.
• November – Henry Nugent, soldier.

References

1. McGrath, Charles Ivar (2021). "The Penal Laws: Origins, Purpose, Enforcement and Impact". In Costello, Kevin; Howlin, Niamh (eds.). Law and Religion in Ireland, 1700–1970. Palgrave Modern Legal History. Springer Nature. pp. 13–48. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-74373-4_2. ISBN 978-3-030-74373-4.
2. 2 Anne c. 7. "An Act for registering the Popish Clergy". Laws In Ireland For The Suppression of Popery. Archived from the original on 2012-02-05. Retrieved 2012-02-24.
3. Kidd, Charles; Williamson, David, eds. (1990). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. New York: St Martin's Press.
4. Burke, Helen (1987). The People and the Poor Law in 19th Century Ireland. Littlehampton: Women's Education Bureau. pp. 9–10.
5. Farquhar, George (1914). Strauss, Louis A. (ed.). 'A Discourse Upon Comedy', 'The Recruiting Officer' and 'The Beaux’ Stratagem'. Boston, Mass.: D. C. Heath & Co. p. x.
6. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 290. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.