1670 in Ireland
Events from the year 1670 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- February-April – William Penn visits the Quaker William Morris at Castle Salem, Cork.
- March 7 – Oliver Plunkett, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, sets foot on Irish soil for the first time in 23 years.
- June 17 – Peter Talbot, Roman Catholic Archbishop of [Dublin (Roman Catholic)|Archbishop of Dublin] and Primate of Ireland, holds his first provincial synod in Dublin. It opens with Solemn High Mass, which for forty years many of the faithful have not witnessed. A subsequent assembly of the senior clergy produces a dispute over the Primacy of Ireland.
- Barrack Bridge is constructed over the River Liffey in Dublin.
- William Robinson is appointed Surveyor General of Ireland.
- First recognized precursor to modern Gaelic football is played in County Meath.
Arts and literature
- December 26 – upper gallery of the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin collapses for the first time.
Births
- January 24 – William Congreve, English playwright
- November 30 – John Toland, philosopher
- Thomas Burgh, military engineer, architect and politician
- Sir Pierce Butler, 4th Baronet, politician
- Arthur Dillon, soldier in the French army
- Turlough O'Carolan, blind itinerant harpist, "The Last of the Bards"
- Aogán Ó Rathaille, poet
- Approximate date – Cornelius Ó Caoimh, Roman Catholic Bishop of Limerick
Deaths
- William FitzWilliam, 3rd Viscount FitzWilliam, noble
- Probable date – James Arthur, Dominican friar and theologian.