{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Use Irish English|date=April 2013}} {{YearInIrelandNav | 1797 }} Events from the year '''1797 in Ireland'''.

==Incumbent== *Monarch: George III

==Events== *May – Henry Grattan retires from the Irish House of Commons.<ref name=TM>{{cite book|editor1=Moody, T. W. |editor2=Martin, F. X. |year=1967|title=The Course of Irish History|publisher=Mercier Press|location=Cork|page=374}}</ref> *Lord Castlereagh is appointed Keeper of the King's Signet for Ireland, a Commissioner of the Treasury for Ireland and a Member of the Privy Council of Ireland. *Royal Black Institution formed from Orangemen as a Protestant loyalist fraternal society.<ref>{{cite web|title=Our Background|url=http://www.royalblack.org/background.html|work=The Royal Black Institution|publisher=Imperial Grand Black Chapter|year=2001|access-date=2013-04-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130414074533/http://www.royalblack.org/background.html|archive-date=14 April 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Arts and literature== *William Drennan writes the ballad ''The Wake of William Orr''.<ref>{{cite web|first=I. R.|last=McBride|title=Drennan, William (1754–1820)|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|edition=Online|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/8046|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/8046}} {{ODNBsub}}</ref>

==Births== *24 February – Samuel Lover, songwriter, novelist and portrait miniaturist (died 1868). *2 June – Joseph Blake, 3rd Baron Wallscourt, socialist (died 1849). *20 November – Tyrone Power, actor, comedian, author and theatrical manager (died 1841). *John Doyle, artist (died 1868). *Charles C. Ingham, painter and founder of the National Academy of Design in New York City (died 1863). *Laurence F. Renehan, priest and historian (died 1857).

==Deaths== *9 July – Edmund Burke, statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher (born 1729) *11 July – Charles Macklin, actor and dramatist (born 1690). *14 October – William Orr, member of the United Irishmen, executed (born 1766).

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