Events from the year 1637 in Ireland. Incumbent Monarch: Charles I Events February – Mícheál Ó Cléirigh seeks approbation for the text of the Annals of the Four Masters from Thomas Fleming, Archbishop of Dublin (Roman Catholic), before carrying the manuscript to Leuven. May 25 – letters patent authorise 'Laudian statutes' for Trinity College Dublin. July 25 – Christopher Wandesford acquires an estate at Castlecomer, County Kilkenny. August 10 – Edward King is drowned in the Irish Sea en route to visiting his family in Ireland, an event which inspires fellow poet Milton's elegy Lycidas. December 22 – a charter incorporates the guild of goldsmiths in Dublin and the Dublin Assay Office is established.
Births Sir Stephen Rice, lawyer (d. 1715) Approximate date – Richard Head, writer and bookseller (d. c.1686)
Deaths August 10 – Edward King, poet (b. 1612) Sir Nathaniel Catelyn, lawyer and politician (b. c.1580)
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