title: 1703 in Ireland
text: # 1703 in Ireland
  
  Events from the year 1703 in Ireland.
  
  ## Incumbent
  
  * Monarch: Anne
  
  ## Events
  
  * June 11 – Charles Hickman is consecrated as Church of Ireland Bishop of Derry.
  * September 11 – a privateering expedition comprising the ships St George and Cinque Ports commanded by William Dampier leaves Kinsale for South America.
  * Parliament of Ireland assembles, the first under Anne, Queen of Great Britain, and the first for five years.
  * Popery Act (An Act to prevent the further Growth of Popery), enacted by the Parliament of Ireland, reintroduces gavelkind: when a Roman Catholic dies, his estate is to be divided equally among his sons (legitimate or otherwise) if they retain their Catholic faith.
  * Treason Act (Ireland) 1703, enacted by the Parliament of Ireland, enforces the Protestant line of succession to the British throne.
  * Sir Robert Doyne is appointed as Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas.
  * The Parliament of Ireland investigates the possibility of improving navigation on the rivers Shannon and Barrow and constructing a Newry Canal.
  
  ## Births
  
  * January 22 (in France) – Antoine Walsh, slave trader and Jacobite (d. 1763 in San Domingo)
  * February 5 – Gilbert Tennent, Presbyterian pastor in Colonial America (d. 1764)
  * March 1 – Philip Tisdall, lawyer and politician (d. 1777)
  * September 29 – Philip Syng, silversmith (d. 1789 in the United States)
  * Arthur Gore, 1st Earl of Arran, politician (d. 1773)
  * John Ussher, politician (d. 1749)
  * Approximate date
     * John Blakeney, politician (d. 1747)
     * Samuel Boyse, poet (d. 1749)
     * Henry Brooke, novelist and dramatist (d. 1783)
     * George Faulkner, publisher and bookseller (d. 1775)
  