1688 in Ireland
# 1688 in Ireland

Events from the year 1688 in Ireland.

## Incumbent

* Monarch: James II (until 23 December), deposed

## 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" (d. 1723)

## Deaths

* March 15 – Peter Valesius Walsh, politician (b. c. 1618)
* July 21 – James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, Anglo-Irish statesman and soldier (b. 1610)
