1617 in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: James I

Events

• May 8 – title of Baron Hamilton of Strabane in the County of Tyrone created in the Peerage of Ireland for the 13-year-old James Hamilton, Master of Abercorn.
• June – Contention of the bards: Teige MacDaire in a letter to Lughaidh Ó Cléirigh and the northern poets proposes a decisive face-to-face poetic disputation.
• August 19 – Sir Walter Ralegh's last expedition sets out from County Cork to cross to South America.
• October 17 – proclamation ordering banishment of Roman Catholic priests educated abroad.
• The De Barry family moves from Barryscourt Castle near Carrigtwohill to Barrymore Castle in Castlelyons.
• Barnabe Rich publishes The Irish Hubbub, or the English Hue and Crie.

Births

• approx. date
• *Roger Boyle, Church of Ireland bishop
• *Hezekiah Holland, Anglican clergyman

Deaths

• January 29 – William Butler, alchemist
• April 10 – David de Barry, 5th Viscount Buttevant, peer
• November 10 – Barnabe Rich, English soldier and writer
• Aonghus Ruadh na nAor Ó Dálaigh, poet
• Eochaidh Ó hÉoghusa, poet