1591 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1591 in Ireland.
Contents
Events
- February - Brian O'Rourke, rebel lord of West Bréifne, seeks right of asylum in the Kingdom of Scotland.
- March 20 - Seamus Ó hÉilidhe is appointed Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam.[1]
- April 3 - Brian O'Rourke is arrested in Glasgow and delivered to the English.
- November 3 - O'Rourke is hanged at Tyburn.[2] His son, Brian Oge O'Rourke, succeeds as lord.
- November - Barnabe Riche proposes action against Roman Catholic recusants.[2]
- December 26 - Hugh Roe O'Donnell escapes from Dublin Castle[2] but is recaptured within days.
- Early 1591–Autumn 1592 - Edmund MacGauran, Roman Catholic Archbishop 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 English sheriff in County 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 of Henry Bagenal, Provincial President of Ulster.
Births
- Michael Wadding, Jesuit theologian and missionary priest (d. 1644)
Deaths
- Early? - Sir Nicholas Bagenal, marshal of the army in Ireland (b. 1509/10)
- November 3 - Brian O'Rourke, lord of West Bréifne (b. 1540?) (hanged)
- Tadhg Dall Ó hÚigínn, poet (b. c.1550)
References
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