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Events from the year 1618 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- 23 January – Charter of Waterford revoked after election of recusants (restored 1626). [1]
- 19 February – Richard Wingfield is created first Viscount Powerscourt.
- 1 October – native Irish ordered to leave lands of the British Plantation of Ulster by 1 May 1619 or be fined. [1]
- 1 December – Captain Nicholas Pynnar begins his Survey of the Escheated Counties of Ulster. [1]
Publications
- Aodh Mac Cathmhaoil (Hugh MacCaghwell or Hugo Cavellus) publishes Scáthán Shacramuinte na hAthridhe (or Tractatus de poenitentia et indulgentiis) in Irish at Louvain. [1]
Births
- Thomas Blood, soldier who tries to steal the Crown Jewels of England from the Tower of London in 1671 (d. 1680)
Deaths
- Richard Stanihurst, translator, poet and historian (b. 1547)