1696 in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: William III

  Events

• April 27 – an act of the Parliament of England for encouraging linen manufacture in Ireland allows plain linen to be exported to England without an import tariff being applied.
• May 2 – The Irish Admiralty’s prize commissioners lodged embezzlement charges related to captured French goods, mainly wines, valued at over £7,279. The suit targeted naval officers such as: Captains Bing, Shovell, and Fitz-Patrick.
• Famine in the Scottish Borders leads to a new wave of Scottish Presbyterian Plantation of Ulster#Continued migration from [Scotland to Ulster|migration from Scotland to Ulster].

  Births

• December 1 – Francis Burton, politician
• Sir [Edward Barry, 1st Baronet], physician and politician
• Thomas Drennan, Presbyterian minister
• Approximate date – James Latham, portrait painter
• Abraham Shackleton, Quaker

  Deaths

• March 18 – Bonaventure Baron, Franciscan theologian
• May 9 – Henry Capell, 1st [Baron Capell of Tewkesbury|Henry Capell], Lord Deputy of Ireland
• October? – Sir [Oliver St George, 1st Baronet], politician.
• December 8 – Sir Charles Porter, Lord Chancellor of Ireland
• Daibhidh Ó Duibhgheannáin, scribe and poet