1591 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1591 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- February â Brian O'Rourke, rebel lord of West Bréifne, seeks right of asylum in the Kingdom of Scotland.
- 20 March â Seamus à hÃilidhe is appointed Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam.[1]
- 3 April â Brian O'Rourke is arrested in Glasgow and delivered to the English.
- 3 November â O'Rourke is hanged at Tyburn.[2] His son, Brian Oge O'Rourke, succeeds as lord.
- November â Barnabe Riche proposes action against Roman Catholic recusants.[2]
- 26 December â Hugh Roe O'Donnell escapes from Dublin Castle[2] but is recaptured within days.
- Early 1591âAutumn 1592 â 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? â Sir Nicholas Bagenal, marshal of the army in Ireland (b. 1509/10)
- 3 November â Brian O'Rourke, lord of West Bréifne (b. 1540?) (hanged)
- Tadhg Dall à hÃigÃnn, poet (b. c.1550)