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.