title: 1704 in Ireland
text: # 1704 in Ireland
  
  Events from the year 1704 in Ireland.
  
  ## Incumbent
  
  * Monarch: Anne
  
  ## Events
  
  * Registration Act, an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of Ireland, one of a series of Penal Laws, requires all existing Roman Catholic priests to register in their local magistrates' court by July 20, to pay two £50 surety bonds for good behavior, and to stay in the county where they registered, with a financial inducement to convert to the Church of Ireland.
  * A House of Industry opens in Dublin to accommodate the destitute.
  * October 26 – Richard Levinge, member of the Irish House of Commons, is created 1st Levinge Baronet, of High Park in the County of Westmeath.
  * Thomas Taylor, member of the Irish House of Commons, is created 1st Taylor Baronet, of Kells in the County of Meath.
  
  ## Arts and literature
  
  * George Farquhar co-writes the play The Stage Coach.
  * Jonathan Swift publishes his first major satires, A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books, in London.
  
  ## Births
  
  * William Handcock, politician (d. 1741)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * January 1 – Dominic Burke Roman Catholic Bishop of Elphin.
  * February 20 – Thomas FitzWilliam, 4th Viscount FitzWilliam, statesman (b. c.1640)
  * c. February – Sir Thomas Butler, 3rd Baronet, politician.
  * August – Francis Taaffe, 3rd Earl of Carlingford, courtier and soldier.
  * November – Henry Nugent, soldier.
  