1702 in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: William III, then Anne

  Events

• 8 March – Anne becomes Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland upon the death of William III.

  Arts and literature

• October – Jonathan Swift returns to Ireland in the company of Esther Johnson.

  Births

• January – Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally, French general, born at Romans, Dauphin, the son of Sir Gerald Lally, an Irish Jacobite from Tuam, County Galway, who married a French noblewoman

  Deaths

• 10 December – Michael Boyle