1687 in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: James II

  Events

• January 8 – the Roman Catholic Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, is appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland.
• Early – the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Sir Charles Porter, is dismissed on a charge of taking bribes and replaced by Sir Alexander Fitton, a Protestant who converts to Catholicism.
• October – the Roman Catholic Thomas Nugent is appointed Lord Chief Justice of Ireland in succession to William Davys.

  Births

• Arthur Blennerhassett, lawyer and politician
• John Maxwell, 1st Baron Farnham, peer and politician
• Thomas Sheridan, Anglican divine and writer
• 1686/1687 – Bridget Kavanah, claimed supercentenarian

  Deaths

• November 26 – Vere Essex Cromwell, 4th Earl of Ardglass, peer
• Roger Boyle, Church of Ireland Bishop of Clogher
• William Burke, 7th Earl of Clanricarde, peer.
• William Davys, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland