1677 in Ireland
Events from the year 1677 in Ireland.
Incumbent
- Monarch: Charles II
Events
- 24 August – James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, is again sworn in as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
- Francis Aungier, 3rd Baron Aungier of Longford, is created 1st Earl of Longford in the Peerage of Ireland.
- Richard Jones, Viscount Ranelagh, is created 1st Earl of Ranelagh in the Peerage of Ireland.
- Laurence Parsons is created Sir Laurence Parsons, 1st Baronet, of Birr Castle in the King's County, in the Baronetage of Ireland.
- Froinsias Ó Maolmhuaidh's Grammatica Latino-Hibernica nunc compendiata, the first printed grammar of the Irish language, is published by the Congregation of Propaganda Fide in Rome.
Births
- Approximate date – Richard FitzWilliam, 5th Viscount FitzWilliam, nobleman and politician
- 1677 or 1678 – George Farquhar, dramatist
Deaths
- September – Richard Bellings, lawyer and Confederate politician
- 14 November – John Temple, judge and politician
- 21 December – John Parry, Church of Ireland Bishop of Ossory.
- 31 December – Theobald Taaffe, 1st Earl of Carlingford, Royalist soldier and courtier
- Francis de Bermingham, Baron Athenry.
- Froinsias Ó Maolmhuaidh, Franciscan friar and linguist
- Probable date – John Lynch, Roman Catholic priest and historian