1671 in Ireland
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- Jonathan SmedleyJonathan SmedleyJonathan Smedley was an Anglo-Irish churchman who became Dean of Clogher. He was an opportunist and satirical victim who engaged in a polemic with Jonathan Swift and the forces of the Tory party.-Life:...
, religious opportunist and satirical victim who engaged in polemic with Jonathan SwiftJonathan SwiftJonathan Swift was an Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer , poet and cleric who became Dean of St...
and the Tory partyToryToryism is a traditionalist and conservative political philosophy which grew out of the Cavalier faction in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It is a prominent ideology in the politics of the United Kingdom, but also features in parts of The Commonwealth, particularly in Canada...
(d.17291729 in Ireland-Births:*12 January - Edmund Burke, statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher .-Deaths:*May - William King, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin and author ....
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