1704 in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: Anne

  Events

• March 4 – Penal laws passed by the Parliament of Ireland to suppress the Catholic Church:
• * Popery Act enforces various restrictions on Catholics, in particular inheritance by gavelkind for Catholics and male primogeniture for Protestants, which tends to prevent an increase in Catholic landholding.
• * Registration Act requires all existing Catholic priests to register in their local magistrates' court by July 20, to pay two £50 surety bonds for good behavior, and to stay in the county where they registered, with a financial inducement to convert to the Church of Ireland.
• October 26 – Richard Levinge, 1st Baronet|Richard Levinge], member of the Irish [House of Commons], is created 1st Levinge Baronet, of High Park in the County of Westmeath.
• Thomas Taylor, 1st Baronet|Thomas Taylor], member of the Irish House of Commons, is created 1st Taylor Baronet, of Kells in the County of Meath.
• A House of Industry opens in Dublin to accommodate the destitute.

  Arts and literature

• George Farquhar co-writes the play The Stage Coach.
• Jonathan Swift publishes his first major satires, A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books, in London.

  Births

• William Handcock, politician

  Deaths

• January 1 – Dominic Burke Roman Catholic Bishop of Elphin.
• February 20 – Thomas FitzWilliam, 4th Viscount FitzWilliam, statesman
• c. February – Sir [Thomas Butler, 3rd Baronet], politician.
• August – Francis Taaffe, 3rd Earl of Carlingford, courtier and soldier.
• November – Henry Nugent, soldier.