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See also:	Other events of 1688 List of years in Ireland

Events from the year1688 in Ireland.

• Monarch:James II (until 23 December), deposed

• DameMary Joseph Butler establishes aBenedictine house inDublin.^[1]
• November 16 – exiledIrish Catholic widow "Goody"Ann Glover becomes the last person hanged inBoston, Massachusetts, as awitch.^[2][3]
• December 7 – start of thesiege of Derry. The city gates are locked against the forces ofKing James II byapprentice boys.^[4]

• Approximate date –Esther Vanhomrigh,Jonathan Swift's "Vanessa" (d.1723)

• March 15 –Peter Valesius Walsh, politician (b. c.1618)
• July 21 –James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde,Anglo-Irish statesman and soldier (b.1610)

• 1688 in Ireland
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• Years of the 17th century in Ireland
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