1698 in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: William III

  Events

• Early – William Molyneux publishes The Case of Ireland's being Bound by Acts of Parliament in England, Stated.
• Famine in the Scottish Borders leads to continued Scottish Presbyterian migration from Scotland to Ulster.
• The Lord Mayor of Dublin's gold chain of office is presented by King William III to Dublin Corporation.
• John Dunton publishes Teague Land: or A Merry Ramble to the Wild Irish.
• John Hopkins publishes the poem The Triumphs of Peace, or the Glories of Nassau... written at the time of his Grace the Duke of Ormond's entrance into Dublin.

  Births

• June 15 – George Browne, soldier of fortune, general in the Russian army
• Ross Roe MacMahon, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, later Archbishop of Armagh

  Deaths

• January 15 – Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington, cavalier and Lord High Treasurer of Ireland
• January – Dáibhí Ó Bruadair, poet
• October 11 – William Molyneux, natural philosopher and writer, founded the Dublin Philosophical Society