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1693 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1693 in Ireland.
Incumbent
[edit]- Monarch: William III and Mary II
Events
[edit]- 1 February – the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars are raised by Colonel Henry Conyngham as Conyngham's dragoons.[1]
- 9 March – the House of Commons of England presents an address to King William III complaining of mismanagement of Irish affairs. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Viscount Sydney, is recalled on 13 June and administration left in the hands of Lords Justices.[2]
- Huguenot cemetery, Dublin, is established.[3]
Arts and literature
[edit]- Vertue rewarded, or The Irish princess, an early romance novel set in Clonmel during the Williamite War in Ireland, is published in London.[4]
Births
[edit]- 13 August – Gustavus Handcock, politician (d. 1751)
Deaths
[edit]
- January – Edward FitzGerald-Villiers, soldier (b. c. 1654)
- 19 July (29 July, New Style) – John Barrett, soldier, killed in the French service at the Battle of Landen.
- 21 August – Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan, Jacobite and soldier (b. c. 1660)
- Peter French, Dominican missionary and theologian.
References
[edit]- ^ Duane, William (1810). A Military Dictionary. p. 140.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Poyntz, Right Rev. Dr. Samuel (1997-12-02), The Huguenots of Lisburn: Tha Story of the Lost Colony, Lisburn.com, retrieved 2006-08-20
- ^ McDermott, Hubert (Summer 1986). "Vertue Rewarded: The First Anglo-Irish Novel". Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. 75 (298). Irish Province of the Society of Jesus: 177–185. JSTOR 30090731.
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