1702 in Ireland

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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.[1]

Arts and literature

• October – Jonathan Swift returns to Ireland in the company of Esther Johnson.^[citation needed]

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)^[citation needed]

Deaths

• 10 December[2] – Michael Boyle (archbishop of Armagh) (Church of Ireland) (b. 1609?)

References

1. James Barclay (curate of Edmonton.) (1792). A complete and universal English dictionary. ANNE, queen of Great Britain. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
2. Arthur Collins (1779). The peerage of England. 3 vols. p. 164.