1591 in Ireland

Events from the year 1591 in Ireland.

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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 O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, elopes with Mabel, sister of Henry Bagenal, Provincial President of Ulster.^[3]

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. Clarke, Aidan; Barry, Judy; O'Byrne, Emmett (October 2009). McGuire, James; Quinn, James (eds.). "Bagenal (O'Neill), Mabel". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.3318/dib.006953.v1. Archived from the original on 21 February 2024.