1702 in Ireland

Events from the year 1702 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: William III (until 8 March), then Anne

Events

• 8 March – Anne becomes Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland upon the death of William III.

Arts and literature

• October – Jonathan Swift returns to Ireland in the company of Esther Johnson.

Births

• January – Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally, French general, born at Romans, Dauphin, the son of Sir Gerald Lally, an Irish Jacobite from Tuam, County Galway, who married a French noblewoman (d. 1766)

Deaths

• 10 December – Michael Boyle (archbishop of Armagh) (Church of Ireland) (b. 1609?)

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