1591 in Ireland

Events from the year 1591 in Ireland.

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Centuries:
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Decades:
  • 1570s
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  • 1590s
  • 1600s
  • 1610s
See also:Other events of 1591
List of years in Ireland

Incumbent
  • Monarch: 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
  • Michael Wadding, Jesuit theologian and missionary priest (d. 1644)

Deaths
  • Early? – Sir Nicholas 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
  1. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 443. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
  2. Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
  3. Hill, George (2004). The Fall of Irish Chiefs and Clans and the Plantation of Ulster. p. 48. ISBN 9780940134423. Retrieved 2012-11-08.
  4. Ranelagh, John (1994). A Short History of Ireland (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-46944-9.
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