1654 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1654 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Lord Protector: Oliver Cromwell

Events

• 24 December – William Petty contracts to undertake an accurate survey of Ireland (the "Down Survey").^[1]
• English Parliamentarian supporters take control of Galway Corporation, dismissing the previous urban elite as "the Tribes of Galway".
• The Fraternity of Physicians of Trinity Hall, predecessor of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, is established in Dublin by Prof. John Stearne.^[2][3]
• William Edmondson establishes what is probably the first Quaker Meeting in Ireland at his house in Lurgan.^[4]
• Rathmacknee Castle and lands were confiscated after Thomas Rosseter fought against Oliver Cromwell at Wexford in the Irish Confederate Wars.

Births

• 28 May – Thomas Handcock, politician (d.1726)
• 4 August – Thomas Brodrick, politician (d.1730)
• 11 September – William Handcock, lawyer and politician (d.1701)
• Sir Henry Bingham, 3rd Baronet, lawyer and politician (d.1714)
• Thomas Bligh, politician (d.1710)

Deaths

• 5 May – Thomas Walsh, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel, in exile.
• 12 May – William Tirry, martyred Roman Catholic priest, executed (b.1609)

References

1. Aspromourgos, Tony (1988). "The life of William Petty in relation to his economics: a tercentenary interpretation". History of Political Economy. 20 (3): 340. doi:10.1215/00182702-20-3-337. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
2. The Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science: Consisting of Original Communications, Reviews, Retrospects, and Reports, Including the Latest Discoveries in Medicine, Surgery, and the Collateral Sciences. Hodges and Smith. 1846. p. 289. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
3. "History of RCPI". heritage.rcpi.ie. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
4. Goodbody, Olive C.; Hutton, B. G. (1967). Guide to Irish Quaker Records, 1654-1860. Stationery Office for the Irish Manuscripts Commission. p. 179. Retrieved 6 October 2024.