1706 in Ireland

Events from the year 1706 in Ireland.

Incumbent

 * Monarch: Anne

Events

 * November 21 – the Cox Baronetcy, of Dunmanway in the County of Cork, is created in the Baronetage of Ireland in favour of Richard Cox, Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
 * Ulster Scots clergyman Francis Makemie organizes the first presbytery in British America.
 * John O'Heyne's Epilogus chronologicus exponens (a history of the Dominican Order in Ireland) is published in Louvain.

Arts and literature

 * April 8 – George Farquhar's Restoration comedy The Recruiting Officer first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in London.

Births

 * John FitzGerald, politician and hereditary Knight of Kerry (d. 1741)
 * approx. date – Matthew Deane, politician (d. 1751)

Deaths

 * April 10 – Arthur Chichester, 3rd Earl of Donegall, soldier (b. 1666) (killed in action)
 * John Hayes, Member of Parliament for Doneraile
 * Ambrose Aungier, 2nd and last Earl of Longford of the First Creation