1669 in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: Charles II

  Events

• January 11 – Peter Talbot is appointed Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland.
• March 8 – James Lynch is appointed Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam.
• March 26 – a royal charter is granted to the trust established by Erasmus Smith for the provision of grammar schools in Ireland, under which
• *Drogheda Grammar School is founded.
• *The King's Hospital is endowed as The Hospital and Free School of King Charles II in Dublin.
• May-August – George Fox, founder of the Quakers, visits Ireland. William Penn also returns to Ireland this year.
• July 9 – Oliver Plunkett is appointed Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland.
• One of a pair of gold sun-discs from ca. 2500–2150 BCE is found at Ballyshannon.

  Births

• July 12 – Henry Boyle, 1st Baron Carleton, Chancellor of the Exchequer of England and Lord Treasurer of Ireland
• Sir Tristram Beresford, 3rd Baronet, politician
• William Cairnes, merchant and politician
• Christopher Fleming, 17th Baron Slane, soldier and politician
• Thomas Nugent, 4th Earl of Westmeath, soldier and noble
• William Southwell, soldier and politician

  Deaths

• Arthur Jones, 2nd Viscount Ranelagh, politician.
• Sir John Russell, 3rd Baronet, soldier