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See also:	Other events of 1717 List of years in Ireland

Events from the year1717 in Ireland.

• Monarch:George I

• August 3 – the titleViscount Boyne, in the province ofLeinster, is created in thepeerage of Ireland in favour of theScottish military commanderGustavus Hamilton, 1st Baron Hamilton of Stackallan.^[1]
• August 7 –Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, sworn in asLord Lieutenant of Ireland.^[2]
• Hugh MacCurtin'sA brief discourse in vindication of the antiquity of Ireland, out of many authentick Irish histories and chronicles (based onGeoffrey Keating'sHistory of Ireland) is published inDublin^[2] The author is imprisoned in the city about this time.

• April 12 –John Austin,Jesuit (d.1784)
• September 20 –David Archibald, farmer and politician inNova Scotia (d.1795)
• Richard Geoghegan, agriculturalist (d.1800)
• Lewis Nicola, officer in the American army during theAmerican Revolutionary War (d.1807)

• September –Ambrose MacDermott,Roman CatholicBishop of Elphin.
• October 22 –Henry Luttrell, army officer (b. c.1655; shot and mortally wounded in his sedan chair in Dublin)
• December –Richard Hamilton, army officer (b. c.1655)
• James Barry, politician (b.1659)

• 1710s in Ireland
• Years of the 18th century in Ireland
• 1717 in Europe
• 1717 by country

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