1617 in Ireland

Events from the year 1617 in Ireland.

Incumbent

 * Monarch: James I

Events

 * May 8 – title of Baron Hamilton of Strabane in the County of Tyrone created in the Peerage of Ireland for the 13-year-old James Hamilton, Master of Abercorn.
 * June – Contention of the bards: Teige MacDaire in a letter to Lughaidh Ó Cléirigh and the northern poets proposes a decisive face-to-face poetic disputation.
 * August 19 – Sir Walter Ralegh's last expedition sets out from Cork to cross to South America.
 * October 17 – proclamation ordering banishment of Roman Catholic priests educated abroad.
 * The De Barry family moves from Barryscourt Castle near Carrigtwohill to Barrymore Castle in Castlelyons.
 * Barnabe Rich publishes The Irish Hubbub, or the English Hue and Crie.

Births

 * approx. date
 * Roger Boyle, Church of Ireland bishop (d. 1687)
 * Hezekiah Holland ('Anglo-Hibernus'), Anglican clergyman (d. after 1660)

Deaths

 * January 29 – William Butler, alchemist (b. c.1534)
 * April 10 – David de Barry, 5th Viscount Buttevant, peer
 * November 10 – Barnabe Rich, English soldier and writer (b. c.1540)
 * Aonghus Ruadh na nAor Ó Dálaigh, poet (b. 1550) (murdered)
 * Eochaidh Ó hÉoghusa, poet (b. 1567)