1797 in Ireland
Events from the year 1797 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- May – Henry Grattan retires from the Irish [House of Commons].
- Lord Castlereagh is appointed Keeper of the King's Signet for Ireland, a Lord High Treasurer of Ireland#Commissioners of [the Treasury for Ireland (1793-1817)|Commissioner of the Treasury for Ireland] and a Member of the Privy Council of Ireland.
- Royal Black Institution formed from Orangemen as a Protestant loyalist fraternal society.
Arts and literature
- William Drennan writes the ballad The Wake of William Orr.
Births
- 24 February – Samuel Lover, songwriter, novelist and portrait miniaturist.
- 2 June – Joseph Blake, 3rd Baron Wallscourt, socialist.
- 20 November – Tyrone Power, actor, comedian, author and theatrical manager.
- John Doyle, artist.
- Charles C. Ingham, painter and founder of the National Academy of Design in New York City.
- Laurence F. Renehan, priest and historian.
Deaths
- 9 July – Edmund Burke, statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher
- 11 July – Charles Macklin, actor and dramatist.
- 14 October – William Orr, member of the United Irishmen, executed.