Events from the year 1688 in Ireland. Incumbent Monarch: James II (until 23 December), deposed Events Dame Mary Joseph Butler establishes a Benedictine house in Dublin. November 16 – exiled Irish Catholic widow "Goody" Ann Glover becomes the last person hanged in Boston, Massachusetts, as a witch.Historical Records and Studies 17: 70-78. December 7 – start of the siege of Derry. The city gates are locked against the forces of King James II by apprentice boys.
Births Approximate date – Esther Vanhomrigh, Jonathan Swift's "Vanessa" (d. 1723)
Deaths March 15 – Peter Valesius Walsh, politician (b. c. 1618) July 21 – James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, Anglo-Irish statesman and soldier (b. 1610)
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