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Events from the year1701 in Ireland.

• Monarch:William III

• March 14 – all illegal cargoes of grain brought from Ireland to the west of Scotland are ordered to be sunk.^[1]
• June 24 – theAct of Settlement 1701, passed by theParliament of England, becomes law.Sophia of Hanover and herProtestant descendants are next in line to the throne followingAnne, the heir apparent to her brother-in-lawKing William III,^[2] ensuring that noCatholic will inherit the throne.
• July 1 – an equestrian statue ofKing William III byGrinling Gibbons is unveiled byDublin Corporation onCollege Green^[3] on the 11th anniversary of theBattle of the Boyne.
• September 18 –Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, sworn asLord Lieutenant of Ireland (appointed1700).^[3][4]

• Marsh's Library inDublin is established byNarcissus Marsh (Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland)) as the first public library in Ireland (architect: SirWilliam Robinson) withrefugeeFrenchHuguenot scholarÉlie Bouhéreau as its first librarian.^[5]
• Upper gallery of theSmock Alley Theatre in Dublin collapses for the second time.

• March 11 – Mark Kenton Sr.,frontiersman, father ofSimon Kenton (died near theMonongahela River in the United States1783)
• March 11 –Joseph Leeson, 1st Earl of Milltown (d.1783)
• Unknown
  • Matthew Concanen, wit, poet, playwright and lawyer (d.1749)
  • Matthew Pilkington, art historian and satirist (died1774)

• June –Charles Hamilton, 5th Earl of Abercorn, peer.

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