Events from the year 1715 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- County Palatine of Tipperary Act, an Act of the Parliament of Ireland, enables purchase by the crown of rights and revenues in County Tipperary held by the Dukes of Ormonde.
- George Evans is created 1st Baron Carbery in the Peerage of Ireland.
Arts and literature
- First record of the actress and writer Eliza Haywood, performing in Thomas Shadwell's Shakespeare adaptation, Timon of Athens; or, The Man-Hater at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.[1]
Births
- Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, pioneer and army officer in colonial New York (d. 1774).
- Patrick Lynch, emigrant to Rio de la Plata and landowner.
- Tadhg Gaelach Ó Súilleabháin, poet (d. 1795).
Deaths
- December 14 – Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick, member of Irish Parliament, Royalist military officer during the English Civil War and governor of the Province of New York (b. 1634)
References
- ^ Blouch, Christine (Summer 1991). "Eliza Haywood and the Romance of Obscurity". SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900. 31 (3): 535–551. doi:10.2307/450861. JSTOR 450861.