1797 in Ireland
# 1797 in Ireland

Events from the year 1797 in Ireland.

## Incumbent

* Monarch: George III

## Events

* May – Henry Grattan retires from the Irish House of Commons.
* Lord Castlereagh is appointed Keeper of the King's Signet for Ireland, a Commissioner of the Treasury for Ireland and a Member of the Privy Council of Ireland.
* Royal Black Institution formed from Orangemen as a Protestant loyalist fraternal society.

## Arts and literature

* William Drennan writes the ballad The Wake of William Orr.

## Births

* 24 February – Samuel Lover, songwriter, novelist and portrait miniaturist (died 1868).
* 2 June – Joseph Blake, 3rd Baron Wallscourt, socialist (died 1849).
* 20 November – Tyrone Power, actor, comedian, author and theatrical manager (died 1841).
* John Doyle, artist (died 1868).
* Charles C. Ingham, painter and founder of the National Academy of Design in New York City (died 1863).
* Laurence F. Renehan, priest and historian (died 1857).

## Deaths

* 9 July – Edmund Burke, statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher (born 1729)
* 11 July – Charles Macklin, actor and dramatist (born 1690).
* 14 October – William Orr, member of the United Irishmen, executed (born 1766).
