1591 in Ireland

Events from the year 1591 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.
• 3 April – Brian O'Rourke is arrested in Glasgow and delivered to the English.
• 3 November – O'Rourke is hanged at Tyburn. His son, Brian Oge O'Rourke, succeeds as lord.
• November – Barnabe Riche proposes action against Roman Catholic recusants.
• 26 December – Hugh Roe O'Donnell escapes from Dublin Castle 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.

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)

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