1637 in Ireland
Events from the year 1637 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- February – Mícheál Ó Cléirigh seeks approbation for the text of the Annals of the Four Masters from Thomas Fleming, Archbishop of Dublin (Roman Catholic), before carrying the manuscript to Leuven.
- May 25 – letters patent authorise 'Laudian statutes' for Trinity College Dublin.
- July 25 – Christopher Wandesford acquires an estate at Castlecomer, County Kilkenny.
- August 10 – Edward King is drowned in the Irish Sea en route to visiting his family in Ireland, an event which inspires fellow poet Milton's elegy Lycidas.
- December 22 – a charter incorporates the guild of goldsmiths in Dublin and the Dublin Assay Office is established.
Births
- Sir Stephen Rice, lawyer
- Approximate date – Richard Head, writer and bookseller
Deaths
- August 10 – Edward King, poet
- Sir Nathaniel Catelyn, lawyer and politician