1529 in Ireland

Events from the year 1529 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Lord: Henry VIII

Events

• September – Richard Gare Lynch becomes Mayor of Galway.
• Thomas Fitzgerald (1454–1534), becomes Earl succeeding his uncle James FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Desmond.
• William Skeffington was appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland to Henry's son, the duke of Richmond, the nominal Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
• Sir Thomas Boleyn, father of Anne Boleyn, became the Earl of Wiltshire and Ormonde.

Deaths

• June 18 – James FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Desmond died in Dingle.
• Brian Ballagh II O'Neill

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