1654 in Ireland

Events from the year 1654 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Lord Protector: Oliver Cromwell

Events

• 24 December – William Petty contracts to undertake an accurate survey of Ireland (the "Down Survey").
• English Parliamentarian supporters take control of Galway Corporation, dismissing the previous urban elite as "the Tribes of Galway".
• The Fraternity of Physicians of Trinity Hall, predecessor of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, is established in Dublin by Prof. John Stearne.
• William Edmondson establishes what is probably the first Quaker Meeting in Ireland at his house in Lurgan.
• Rathmacknee Castle and lands were confiscated after Thomas Rosseter fought against Oliver Cromwell at Wexford in the Irish Confederate Wars.

Births

• 28 May – Thomas Handcock, politician (d.1726)
• 4 August – Thomas Brodrick, politician (d.1730)
• 11 September – William Handcock, lawyer and politician (d.1701)
• Sir Henry Bingham, 3rd Baronet, lawyer and politician (d.1714)
• Thomas Bligh, politician (d.1710)

Deaths

• 5 May – Thomas Walsh, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel, in exile.
• 12 May – William Tirry, martyred Roman Catholic priest, executed (b.1609)

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