1591 in Ireland explained
Events from the year 1591 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Elizabeth I
Events
- February – Brian O'Rourke, rebel lord of West Bréifne, seeks right of asylum in the Kingdom of Scotland.
- 20 March – Seamus Ó hÉilidhe is appointed Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam.[1]
- 3 April – Brian O'Rourke is arrested in Glasgow and delivered to the English.
- 3 November – 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]
- 26 December – 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
Deaths
Notes and References
- Book: Fryde, E. B.. Greenway, D. E.. Porter, S.. Roy, I.. Handbook of British Chronology. 3rd. Cambridge University Press. 1986. 0-521-56350-X. 443.
- Book: Moody, T. W.. A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. 1989. 978-0-19-821744-2. etal.
- Book: Hill, George. The Fall of Irish Chiefs and Clans and the Plantation of Ulster. 2004. 48. 9780940134423. 2012-11-08.
- Book: Ranelagh, John. A Short History of Ireland. 0-521-46944-9. 2nd. Cambridge University Press. 1994.