1591 in Ireland
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Events from the year1591 in Ireland.
Incumbent[edit]
Events[edit]
- February –Brian O'Rourke,rebel lord ofWest Bréifne,seeksright of asylumin theKingdom of Scotland.
- 20 March –Seamus Ó hÉilidheis appointedRoman CatholicArchbishop of Tuam.[1]
- 3 April –Brian O'Rourkeis arrested inGlasgowand delivered to the English.
- 3 November – O'Rourke ishangedatTyburn.[2]His son,Brian Oge O'Rourke,succeeds as lord.
- November –Barnabe Richeproposes action against Roman Catholicrecusants.[2]
- 26 December –Hugh Roe O'Donnellescapes fromDublin Castle[2]but is recaptured within days.
- Early 1591–Autumn 1592 –Edmund MacGauran,Roman CatholicArchbishop of Armagh,travels in Spain and Portugal seeking financial and military assistance for an uprising in Ireland.
- Hugh Roe MacMahon, The MacMahon, resists the imposition of an EnglishsheriffinCounty Monaghan;he is charged with treason, for which he will be executed, and his lordship divided.[3][4]
- Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone,elopes with Mabel, sister ofHenry Bagenal,Provincial President of Ulster.
Births[edit]
- Michael Wadding,Jesuittheologian and missionary priest (d.1644)
Deaths[edit]
- Early? – SirNicholas Bagenal,marshal of the army in Ireland (b.1509/10)
- 3 November –Brian O'Rourke,lord of West Bréifne (b.1540?) (hanged)
- Tadhg Dall Ó hÚigínn,poet (b. c.1550)
References[edit]
- ^Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986).Handbook of British Chronology(3rd ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 443.ISBN0-521-56350-X.
- ^abcMoody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989).A New History of Ireland.8:A Chronology of Irish History.Oxford University Press.ISBN978-0-19-821744-2.
- ^Hill, George (2004).The Fall of Irish Chiefs and Clans and the Plantation of Ulster.p. 48.ISBN9780940134423.Retrieved2012-11-08.
- ^Ranelagh, John (1994).A Short History of Ireland(2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press.ISBN0-521-46944-9.