1688 in Ireland

Events

• Dame Mary Joseph Butler establishes a Benedictine house in Dublin.
• November 16 – exiled Irish Catholic widow "Goody" Ann Glover becomes the last person hanged in Boston, Massachusetts, as a witch.
• December 7 – start of the Siege of Derry. The city gates are locked against the forces of King James II by apprentice boys.

  Births

• Approximate date – Esther Vanhomrigh, Jonathan Swift's "Vanessa"

  Deaths

• March 15 – Peter Valesius Walsh, politician
• July 21 – James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, Anglo-Irish statesman and soldier