Events from the year 1656 in Ireland. Lord Protector: Oliver Cromwell Cromwellian soldier William Morris becomes a Quaker, founding a meeting at Belturbet...

1656 (MDCLVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1656th year...

Down Survey was a cadastral survey of Ireland, carried out by English scientist, William Petty, in 1655 and 1656. It was created to provide for precise...

lecture in Irish to be given in Dublin. In March 1656 a converted Catholic priest, Séamas Corcy, was appointed to preach in Irish at Bride's parish every Sunday...

1581 – 21 March 1656) was the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland between 1625 and 1656. He was a prolific Irish scholar and...

Molyneux (1890–1955), Canadian ice hockey player William Molyneux (1656–1698), Irish natural philosopher, and father of Samuel (maternal) Lorraine Bracco's...

Ballymahon (Irish: Baile Uí Mhatháin, meaning 'Mahon's town') on the River Inny is a town in the southern part of County Longford, Ireland. It is 19 km...

and its surrounds. In 1655 several local dignitaries were ordered to oversee a lecture in Irish to be given in Dublin. In March 1656 a converted Catholic...

historian, James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh from 1625 to 1656. In 1615, the Church of Ireland drew up its own confession of faith, similar to the English...

Irish republicanism (Irish: poblachtánachas Éireannach) is the political movement for an Irish republic, void of any British rule. Throughout its centuries...

friaries and other monastic religious houses in Ireland. This article provides a gazetteer for the whole of Ireland. To navigate the listings on this page,...

Scottish noblewoman Lady Anna Mackenzie. From April 1656, the prince received daily instruction in the Reformed religion from the Calvinist preacher Cornelis...

William Richardson (1656–1727) was an Irish politician. He was the son of Major Edward Richardson of Legacorry (aka Richhill Castle), County Armagh, MP...

1651 and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685. Charles II was the eldest surviving...

instance, Irish or France). This year in England, John Phillips, a nephew of John Milton, is summoned before the privy council for his share in a book of...

Between the period July 1649 and November 1656 the total amount of bounty paid out for wolf kills in Ireland as a whole was £3,847 5s. Galway, Mayo, Sligo...

(1595–1613) Christopher Hampton (1613–1625) James Ussher (1625–1656) See vacant (1656–1661) John Bramhall (1660–1663) James Margetson (1663–1678) Michael...

Graham (1991). The Irish in Britain, 1815–1914. Gill & Macmillan Ltd. ISBN 978-0-7171-1656-0. Delaney, Enda (2013). The Irish in Post-War Britain. OUP...

Ireland (commonly known as Lord Chancellor of Ireland) was the highest judicial office in Ireland until the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922...

of the English Civil War, in 1654–56 a Civil Survey was taken of all the lands of Ireland. It proved inaccurate, and in 1656–58 the Down Survey was conducted...

for their work, which the Second Protectorate Parliament, instated in September 1656, voted down for fear of a permanent military state. Ultimately, however...

exiled royalists of England, Ireland, and Scotland. It was signed in Brussels, in the Spanish Netherlands, on 2 April 1656. Marquess of Ormonde and the...

Alan Brodrick may refer to: Alan Brodrick, 1st Viscount Midleton (c. 1656–1728), Irish lawyer and politician Alan Brodrick, 2nd Viscount Midleton (1702–1747)...

and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII from the death of his elder brother, Charles II, on 6 February 1685. He was deposed in the Glorious...

James Ussher (1581–1656), Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland 1625–1656 Jim McAllister (1943–2013), Born in Crossmaglen, County...

contains information about the literary events and publications of 1656. April 25 – In London, the Council of State, usually busy with larger matters, has...

William Molyneux FRS (/ˈmɒlɪnjuː/; 17 April 1656 – 11 October 1698) was an Anglo-Irish writer on science, politics and natural philosophy. He is noted...

friars from Ireland, it is also the Irish National Church in Rome. Franciscan novitiate in Capranica near Sutri, established in 1656 Irish Augustinian...

County Tipperary (Irish: Contae Thiobraid Árann) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. The county is named...

in Bristol, and ordered to leave in 1609. There have continuously been practising Jews in England since at least the 1630s, but it was not until 1656...