1646 in Ireland

Events from the year 1646 in Ireland.

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See also:Other events of 1646
List of years in Ireland

Incumbent
  • Monarch: Charles I

Events
  • 3 March – the title of Earl of Leinster in the Peerage of Ireland is created for Robert Cholmondeley.[1]
  • 28 March – the first "Ormonde Peace": the Supreme Council of the Irish Catholic Confederation signs an agreement with James Butler, Marquess of Ormonde, as lieutenant of Charles I of England which would procure some rights for Catholics in return for their military support of the royalists in England, but this is renounced by the Confederation's General Assembly.
  • 5 June – the Battle of Benburb, part of the Irish Confederate Wars, takes place in County Tyrone. The forces of Catholic Confederate Ireland under Owen Roe O'Neill secure a decisive victory over a Scottish Covenanter and Anglo-Irish army led by Robert Monro.[2]
  • 29 June – battle at Laught (Leacht), part of the Irish Confederate Wars, between Tadhg Mór and his brother Laughlin Ó Cellaigh (who is killed).

Arts and literature
  • Henry Burkhead's closet drama Cola's Fury, or Lirenda's Misery, based on the Irish Rebellion of 1641, is published in Kilkenny (dated 1645).[3]

Births
  • 24 August – Roger Boyle, 2nd Earl of Orrery, politician (d. 1682)
  • John Davys, politician (d. 1689)
  • Antoine Hamilton, author (d. 1720)

Deaths
  • 29 June – Laughlin Ó Cellaigh, chief.

References
  1. "Cholmondeley, Viscount (I, 1661)". www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
  2. "Battle of Benburb 1646". O'Neill Country Historical Society. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
  3. "A tragedy of Cola's furie, or, Lirenda's miserie written by Henry Burkhead, 1645". quod.lib.umich.edu. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
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