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1676 In Ireland
Events from the year 1676 in Ireland. Incumbent *Monarch: Charles II Events *July 31 – the title Viscount Lanesborough is first created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of George Lane, 2nd Baronet, of Tulsk. *August 28 – Irish Donation of 1676 is shipped from Dublin to relieve Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. * Froinsias Ó Maolmhuaidh's ''Lucerna fidelium, seu, Fasciclus decerptus ab authoribus magis versatis qui tractarunt de doctrin a Christiana'' (''Lochrann na gCreidmheach''), an Irish language catechism of Catholic Church doctrine is published by the Congregation of Propaganda Fide in Rome. Births * William Handcock, politician (d. 1723) * John Rogerson, lawyer and politician (d. 1741) *Owen Swiny, theatrical impresario and art dealer (d. 1754) *Caleb Threlkeld, botanist (d. 1728) *''approximate date'' – John Moore, 1st Baron Moore, politician (d. 1725) Deaths *John-Baptist Hackett, Dominican theologian. *Richard Lynch, Jesuit theologian (b. 1611) Refere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Monarch
Irish may refer to: Common meanings * Someone or something of, from, or related to: ** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe ***Éire, Irish language name for the isle ** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ** Republic of Ireland, a sovereign state * Irish language, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family spoken in Ireland * Irish people, people of Irish ethnicity, people born in Ireland and people who hold Irish citizenship Places * Irish Creek (Kansas), a stream in Kansas * Irish Creek (South Dakota), a stream in South Dakota * Irish Lake, Watonwan County, Minnesota * Irish Sea, the body of water which separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain People * Irish (surname), a list of people * William Irish, pseudonym of American writer Cornell Woolrich (1903–1968) * Irish Bob Murphy, Irish-American boxer Edwin Lee Conarty (1922–1961) * Irish McCal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Handcock (1676–1723)
William Handcock (1676 – August 1723) was an Irish politician. He was the eldest son of Thomas Handcock and his wife Dorothy Green. Handcock entered the Irish House of Commons in 1703, representing the constituency of Athlone until 1714. He sat for Dublin City from 1721 until his death two years later. He married Sarah Warburton, daughter of Richard Warburton and had by her six sons and four daughters. His oldest son William and his sixth son John Gustavus Handcock both were also members of the Parliament of Ireland The Parliament of Ireland ( ga, Parlaimint na hÉireann) was the legislature of the Lordship of Ireland, and later the Kingdom of Ireland, from 1297 until 1800. It was modelled on the Parliament of England and from 1537 comprised two chamb .... References 1676 births 1723 deaths Irish MPs 1703–1713 Irish MPs 1713–1714 Irish MPs 1715–1727 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for Athlone Members of the Parliament of I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesuit
, image = Ihs-logo.svg , image_size = 175px , caption = ChristogramOfficial seal of the Jesuits , abbreviation = SJ , nickname = Jesuits , formation = , founders = , founding_location = , type = Order of clerics regular of pontifical right (for men) , headquarters = Generalate:Borgo S. Spirito 4, 00195 Roma-Prati, Italy , coords = , region_served = Worldwide , num_members = 14,839 members (includes 10,721 priests) as of 2020 , leader_title = Motto , leader_name = la, Ad Majorem Dei GloriamEnglish: ''For the Greater Glory of God'' , leader_title2 = Superior General , leader_name2 = Fr. Arturo Sosa, SJ , leader_title3 = Patron saints , leader_name3 = , leader_title4 = Ministry , leader_name4 = Missionary, educational, literary works , main_organ = La Civiltà Cattolica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Lynch (Jesuit)
Richard Lynch (15 November 161018 March 1676) was an Irish theologian and Jesuit. Born in Galway to one of the Tribes of Galway, he was educated by the Jesuits at Compostela and joined the society in 1630. In 1637 he was made rector of the Irish College in Seville. He died at Salamanca in 1676 having lived most of his life in Spain. The library at Salamanca holds many of his theological works in manuscript form, many of which were written in Spanish. Bibliography * ''Universa Philosophia Scholastica'', i, ii, iii, Lyons, 1654 * ''Sermones varios'', Salamanca, 1670 * ''De Deo ultimo fine'', i, ii, Salamanca, 1671 * ''Sermon Panezyrico a la Canonizacion de Francisco de Borja, con circumstancias de la rudificacion de el Colegio de la Compania de Jesus, de Medina del Campo, despeus de su grema, y Jubileo de quarenta horas'', Salamanca, 1674. See also * John Lynch (Gratianus Lucius) * Stephen Lynch (Franciscan) * Peirce Lynch Peirce Lynch, alias Peter Lynch, fl. 1485–1486, was th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominican Order
The Order of Preachers ( la, Ordo Praedicatorum) abbreviated OP, also known as the Dominicans, is a Catholic mendicant order of Pontifical Right for men founded in Toulouse, France, by the Spanish priest, saint and mystic Dominic of Caleruega. It was approved by Pope Honorius III via the papal bull ''Religiosam vitam'' on 22 December 1216. Members of the order, who are referred to as ''Dominicans'', generally carry the letters ''OP'' after their names, standing for ''Ordinis Praedicatorum'', meaning ''of the Order of Preachers''. Membership in the order includes friars, nuns, active sisters, and lay or secular Dominicans (formerly known as tertiaries). More recently there has been a growing number of associates of the religious sisters who are unrelated to the tertiaries. Founded to preach the Gospel and to oppose heresy, the teaching activity of the order and its scholastic organisation placed the Preachers in the forefront of the intellectual life of the Middle Ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John-Baptist Hackett
John-Baptist Hackett (alias Hacket, Hacquet, Hecquet) (died 1676) was an Irish Catholic theologian. Biography Hackett was born at Fethard, co. Tipperary, Ireland, and was educated in the Dominican convent at Cashel, where he became a member of that order. As a professor, he subsequently taught with reputation at Milan, Naples, and Rome. He received the degree of master in theology ( STM) from the general chapter of the Dominican order in 1644. His character and erudition, gained him the confidence of eminent dignitaries in Italy, and Cardinal Altieri, subsequently Pope Clement X, is said to have urged his promotion to the cardinalate. Meetings with Hacket at Milan and Cremona was believed to have influenced Lord Philip Howard, afterwards cardinal, to enter the order of St. Dominic. Hacket passed the greater part of his life at Rome, where his works were published. He died at the Minerva convent, Rome, on 23 August 1676, and was interred in the convent church, in front of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1725 In Ireland
Events from the year 1725 in Ireland. Incumbent *Monarch: George I Events *June 24 – first recorded meeting of the Grand Lodge of Ireland in Dublin, making it the second most senior Grand Lodge in world Freemasonry, and the oldest in continuous existence.''Dublin Weekly Journal'' 26 June 1725. *Irish Presbyterian ministers who refuse to subscribe at ordination to the Westminster Confession form the Presbytery of Antrim. Births *May 15 – James Fortescue, politician (d. 1782) *September 27 – Patrick d'Arcy, mathematician (d. 1779) *September 28 ''(possible date)'' – Arthur Guinness, brewer and founder of the Guinness Brewery business and family (d. 1803) *December 20 – John Parr, Governor of Nova Scotia (d. 1791) *Robert Hellen, English-born lawyer and politician (d. 1793) * Alexander McNutt, British Army officer and coloniser of Nova Scotia (d. 1811) Deaths *March 31 – Henry Boyle, 1st Baron Carleton, Chancellor of the Exchequer of England and Lord Treasurer of Ireland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Moore, 1st Baron Moore
John Moore, 1st Baron Moore PC (c. 1676 – 8 September 1725), was an Irish politician. Moore was the son of Thomas Moore and Ellen Colley, daughter of Dudley Cowley, Member of Parliament for Philipstown. He was returned to the Irish Parliament for Philipstown in 1703, a seat he held until 1713, and then represented King's County between 1713 and 1715. He was sworn of the Irish Privy Council in August 1715 and raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Moore, of Tullamore in the King's County, in October of the same year. Lord Moore married firstly Mary Lum, daughter of Elnathan Lum, in 1697. After his first wife's death he married secondly Elizabeth Sankey, daughter of John Sankey. He died in September 1725 and was succeeded in the barony by his son from his first marriage, Charles, who was created Earl of Charleville Earl of Charleville was a title that was created twice in the Peerage of Ireland. The first creation came in 1758 when Charles Moore, 2nd Baron Moore, was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1728 In Ireland
Events from the year 1728 in Ireland. Incumbent *Monarch: George II Events *May 6 – Disenfranchising Act, an Act of the Parliament of Ireland, one of a series of Penal Laws, prohibiting all Roman Catholics from voting, receives royal assent. Arts and literature *Matthew Dubourg becomes Master and Composer of State Music of Dublin. Births *August 18 – James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont, statesman, first President of the Royal Irish Academy, president of the volunteer convention in Dublin, 1783 (d. 1799) *November 10 – Oliver Goldsmith, writer, poet and physician (d. 1774) *Nicholas Sheehy, Roman Catholic priest, opponent of the Penal Laws, executed (d. 1766) Deaths *January 28 – Esther Johnson, friend of Jonathan Swift (b. 1681) *Rev. Caleb Threlkeld, botanist (b. 1676) References {{DEFAULTSORT:1728 In Ireland Years of the 18th century in Ireland Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Oc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caleb Threlkeld
Caleb Threlkeld (1676–1728) was an Irish botanist, dissenting cleric and physician A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th .... He wrote the first flora of Ireland under the title ''Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum .....Dispositarum sive Commentatio de Plantis Indigenis praesertim Dublinensibus instituta'' which was published in Dublin in 1726. An appendix was based on botanical notes made by Thomas Molyneux. References *Nelson, E.C., Raven, M., 1998. Caleb Threlkeld’s family. ''Glasra'' 3: 161-166*Nelson, E.C.,1978 The Publication Date of the First Irish Flora. Caleb Threlkeld's Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum, 1726.' ''Glasra'' 2: 37-42 {{DEFAULTSORT:Threlkeld, Caleb 19th-century Irish botanists 1676 births 1728 deaths 19th-century Irish clergy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1754 In Ireland
Events from the year 1754 in Ireland. Incumbent *Monarch: George II Events *6 March – Thomas Dillon, Richard Ferrall and Co.'s bank failure in Dublin due to fraud, the first of three (1754– 1755); the partners abscond to France. *County of Meath Infirmary established at Navan. Arts and literature *2 March – riot at Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin. Thomas Sheridan, the manager, resigns, and leaves Ireland on 15 September. Births *15 January – Richard Martin, "Humanity Dick", politician and animal rights activist (died 1834) *7 May – Adam Averell, Primitive Wesleyan cleric (died 1847) *23 May – William Drennan, physician, poet, educationalist and co-founder of the Society of United Irishmen (died 1820) *14 July – Robert Ward, politician (died 1831) *25 August – Charles Coote, 2nd Baron Castle Coote, politician (died 1823) *9 December – Francis Rawdon, politician and military officer (died 1826 at sea) *Cornelius Heeney, merchant and politician in America (died ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owen Swiny
Owen Swiny (Also spelled McSwiny, Swiney, MacSwiny or MacSwinny) (1676, near Enniscorthy, Ireland – 2 October 1754) was an Irish theatre impresario and art dealer active in London known for his work in popularising Italian opera in London and his agency in Venice. Life Having attended Trinity College, Dublin from 1694, he was working at the Drury Lane Theatre by spring 1703 with Christopher Rich. He also adapted Molière's '' L'amour médecin'' as ''The Quacks'', putting it on at the Drury Lane Theatre on 29 March 1705. In 1706, and in 1708 he spearheaded the London debut of Nicolini, whose performance of ''Pyrrhus and Demetrius'' Swiny had translated himself. With the rest of Rich's party, he was evicted from Drury Lane in 1709 by William Collier. In this time he had also quarrelled with Rich and poached Colley Cibber from him. After initial success with plays and opera there, Collier's court intrigues against Swiny led to his bankruptcy by January 1713. He then went ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
