1797 in Ireland

Events from the year 1797 in Ireland.

Incumbent

 * Monarch: George III

Events

 * May – Henry Grattan retires from the Irish House of Commons.
 * Lord Castlereagh is appointed Keeper of the King's Signet for Ireland, a Commissioner of the Treasury for Ireland and a Member of the Privy Council of Ireland.
 * Royal Black Institution formed from Orangemen as a Protestant loyalist fraternal society.

Arts and literature

 * William Drennan writes the ballad The Wake of William Orr.

Births

 * 24 February – Samuel Lover, songwriter, novelist and portrait miniaturist (died 1868).
 * 2 June – Joseph Blake, 3rd Baron Wallscourt, socialist (died 1849).
 * 20 November – Tyrone Power, actor, comedian, author and theatrical manager (died 1841).
 * John Doyle, artist (died 1868).
 * Charles C. Ingham, painter and founder of the National Academy of Design in New York City (died 1863).
 * Laurence F. Renehan, priest and historian (died 1857).

Deaths

 * 9 July – Edmund Burke, statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher (born 1729)
 * 11 July – Charles Macklin, actor and dramatist (born 1690).
 * 14 October – William Orr, member of the United Irishmen, executed (born 1766).