title: 1688 in Ireland
text: # 1688 in Ireland
  
  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.
  * 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)
  