1671 in Ireland

Events

• January 18 – Royalist Sir Richard Talbot petitions King Charles II on behalf of the Catholic nobility and gentry.
• March 13 – the Parliament of England addresses the King against the growth of popery.
• April 22 – Navigation Act passed by the Parliament of England prohibits direct imports from the English colonies to Ireland.
• May 26 – John O'Mollony is appointed Roman Catholic Bishop of Killaloe.
• June 10 – the King permits Sir George Hamilton to raise a regiment for service in France.
• August 1 – Prince Rupert of the Rhine heads his first commission into land settlement in Ireland.
• August 4 – Viscount Ranelagh undertakes to manage revenues of the Crown in Ireland.
• December 5 – Royal charter granted to The King's Hospital in Dublin.

  Births

• Jonathan Smedley, religious opportunist and satirical victim who engaged in polemic with Jonathan Swift and the Tory party

  Deaths

• January – Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh, scribe, translator, historian and genealogist.
• April – William Caulfeild, 1st Viscount Charlemont
• June – William St Lawrence, 12th Baron Howth
• October - Samuel Mather - nonconformist minister