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See also:	Other events of 1678 List of years in Ireland

Events from the year1678 in Ireland.

• Monarch:Charles II

• 11 October –Peter Talbot,Roman CatholicArchbishop of Dublin andPrimate of Ireland, having returned to Ireland in May, is arrested nearMaynooth on the orders ofJames Butler, Duke of Ormonde,Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, for supposed complicity in the "Popish Plot" and imprisoned inDublin Castle.^[1]
• The vacantBishopric of Leighlin is given to theBishop of Kildare to form theRoman Catholic Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin.
• About 1,200 Irish families sail fromBarbados toVirginia and theCarolinas.

• 26 September –Peter Lacy, soldier, imperial commander inRussia (d.1751)
• 1677 or 1678 –George Farquhar, dramatist (d.1707)

• 23 August –Nicholas French, Bishop of Ferns, political activist and pamphleteer (b.1604)

• 1670s in Ireland
• Years of the 17th century in Ireland
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