1797 in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: George III

  Events

• May – Henry Grattan retires from the Irish House of Commons.
• Lord Castlereagh is appointed Keeper of the King's Signet for Ireland, a Commissioner of the Treasury for Ireland and a Member of the Privy Council of Ireland.
• Royal Black Institution formed from Orangemen as a Protestant loyalist fraternal society.

  Arts and literature

• William Drennan writes the ballad The Wake of William Orr.

  Births

• 24 February – Samuel Lover, songwriter, novelist and portrait miniaturist.
• 2 June – Joseph Blake, 3rd Baron Wallscourt, socialist.
• 20 November – Tyrone Power, actor, comedian, author and theatrical manager.
• John Doyle, artist.
• Charles C. Ingham, painter and founder of the National Academy of Design in New York City.
• Laurence F. Renehan, priest and historian.

  Deaths

• 9 July – Edmund Burke, statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher
• 11 July – Charles Macklin, actor and dramatist.
• 14 October – William Orr, member of the United Irishmen, executed.