1671 in Ireland

Events from the year 1671 in Ireland.

Incumbent

 * Monarch: Charles II

Events

 * January 18 – Royalist Sir Richard Talbot petitions King Charles II on behalf of the Catholic nobility and gentry.
 * March 13 – the Parliament of England addresses the King against the growth of popery.
 * April 22 – Navigation Act passed by the Parliament of England prohibits direct imports from the English colonies to Ireland.
 * May 26 – John O'Molony is appointed Roman Catholic Bishop of Killaloe.
 * June 10 – the King permits Sir George Hamilton to raise a regiment for service in France.
 * August 1 – Prince Rupert of the Rhine heads his first commission into land settlement in Ireland.
 * August 4 – Viscount Ranelagh undertakes to manage revenues of the Crown in Ireland.
 * December 5 – Royal charter granted to The King's Hospital (Blue Coat School) in Dublin.

Births

 * Jonathan Smedley, religious opportunist and satirical victim who engaged in polemic with Jonathan Swift and the Tory party (d.1729)

Deaths

 * January – Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh, scribe, translator, historian and genealogist (murdered).
 * April – William Caulfeild, 1st Viscount Charlemont (b. 1624)
 * June – William St Lawrence, 12th Baron Howth (b. 1628)
 * October - Samuel Mather (Independent minister) (b. 1626 in England) - nonconformist minister