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1688 in Ireland
Events from the year
1688 in Ireland
.
Incumbent
Monarch
:
James II
(until 23 December), deposed
Events
Dame
Mary Joseph Butler
establishes a
Benedictine
house in
Dublin
.
November 16
â exiled
Irish Catholic
widow "Goody"
Ann Glover
becomes the last person hanged in
Boston
, Massachusetts, as a
witch
.
December 7
â start of the
siege of Derry
. The city gates are locked against the forces of
King James II
by
apprentice boys
.
Births
Approximate date âÂÂ
Esther Vanhomrigh
,
Jonathan Swift
's "Vanessa" (d.
1723
)
Deaths
March 15
âÂÂ
Peter Valesius Walsh
, politician (b. c.
1618
)
July 21
âÂÂ
James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde
,
Anglo-Irish
statesman and soldier (b.
1610
)
References