1681 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1681 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: Charles II

Events

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  Oliver Plunket, hanged for treason.

  July 1 – Oliver Plunkett, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, falsely convicted in June of treason, is hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn, London, the last Catholic martyr to die in England; ^[1] he will be canonised in 1975. Anglo-Irish Catholic intriguer Edward Fitzharris is executed in London on the same day.
• September 19 – the Quaker William Bates and a small group of emigrants depart from Dublin aboard Ye Owners Adventure to settle in British America. ^{[2] [3]}

Arts and literature

• The Dutch portrait painter Ludowyk Smits is active in Dublin. ^[4]

Deaths

• July 1 – Oliver Plunkett, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland (b.1629) (hanged)

References

1. "Blessed Oliver Plunket". Catholic Encyclopedia. 1913. Retrieved 22 March 2011.
2. Lang, Carole Ann (16 October 1975). "William Bates, a builder of freedom". Weekly Retrospect.
3. Clement, John (1877). "William Bates". Sketches of the first emigrant settlers in Newton Township, Old Gloucester County, West New Jersey. Camden: Sinnickson Chew. pp.  23–36.
4. "Smits, Caspar". Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie . Retrieved 16 November 2012.