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1681 in Ireland
Events from the year
1681 in Ireland
.
Incumbent
Monarch
:
Charles II
Events
July 1
âÂÂ
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
; he will be
canonised
in 1975. Anglo-Irish Catholic intriguer
Edward Fitzharris
is executed in London on the same day.
September 19
â the
Quaker
William Bates
and a small group of
emigrant
s depart from
Dublin
aboard
Ye Owners Adventure
to settle in
British America
.
Arts and literature
The
Dutch
portrait painter
Ludowyk Smits
is active in
Dublin
.
Deaths
July 1
âÂÂ
Oliver Plunkett
,
Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh
and
Primate of All Ireland
(b.
1629
) (hanged)
References