1704 in Ireland
# 1704 in Ireland

Events from the year 1704 in Ireland.

## Incumbent

* Monarch: Anne

## Events

* Registration Act, an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of Ireland, one of a series of Penal Laws, requires all existing Roman Catholic priests to register in their local magistrates' court by July 20, to pay two £50 surety bonds for good behavior, and to stay in the county where they registered, with a financial inducement to convert to the Church of Ireland.
* A House of Industry opens in Dublin to accommodate the destitute.
* October 26 – Richard Levinge, member of the Irish House of Commons, is created 1st Levinge Baronet, of High Park in the County of Westmeath.
* Thomas Taylor, member of the Irish House of Commons, is created 1st Taylor Baronet, of Kells in the County of Meath.

## Arts and literature

* George Farquhar co-writes the play The Stage Coach.
* Jonathan Swift publishes his first major satires, A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books, in London.

## Births

* William Handcock, politician (d. 1741)

## Deaths

* January 1 – Dominic Burke Roman Catholic Bishop of Elphin.
* February 20 – Thomas FitzWilliam, 4th Viscount FitzWilliam, statesman (b. c.1640)
* c. February – Sir Thomas Butler, 3rd Baronet, politician.
* August – Francis Taaffe, 3rd Earl of Carlingford, courtier and soldier.
* November – Henry Nugent, soldier.
