1636 in Ireland

Events

• May 27-28 – cross-examination of a Galway jury on a charge of refusing to find the king's title to land, resulting in heavy fines and imprisonment until the jury submits in December.
• May 31 – proclamation regulating the production of linen yarn.
• August 12 – following a public disputation in Belfast, Henry Leslie, Church of Ireland Bishop of Down and Connor, sentences Edward Brice, Henry Calvert, James Hamilton, John Ridge and one other non-subscribing Presbyterian minister to silence.
• Compilation of the Annals of the Four Masters is completed by Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, assisted by Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh, Fearfeasa Ó Maol Chonaire and Peregrine Ó Duibhgeannain, in the Franciscan friary in Donegal Town under the patronage of Fearghal Ó Gadhra.
• Ballyhornan is founded in County Down.

  Arts and literature

• May – London playwright James Shirley moves to work for four years under John Ogilby at the new Werburgh Street Theatre in Dublin, the first in Ireland.

  Births

• Richard Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont, governor in the British North American colonies
• Richard Nagle, lawyer and politician
• Máel Ísa Ó Raghallaigh, harper.

  Deaths

• December 10 – Randal MacDonnell, 1st Earl of Antrim, peer.
• Dominick Sarsfield, 1st Viscount Sarsfield, lawyer
• Brockhill Taylor, landowner and politician.