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1646 in Ireland
Events from the year
1646 in Ireland
.
Incumbent
Monarch
:
Charles I
Events
3 March
â the title of
Earl of Leinster
in the
Peerage of Ireland
is created for
Robert Cholmondeley
.
28 March
âÂÂ
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
â 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
.
29 June
â battle at Laught (
Leacht
), part of the Irish Confederate Wars, between Tadhg Mór and his brother
Laughlin ÃÂ 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).
Births
24 August
âÂÂ
Roger Boyle, 2nd Earl of Orrery
, politician (d.
1682
)
John Davys
, politician (d.
1689
)
Antoine Hamilton
, author (d.
1720
)
Deaths
29 June
âÂÂ
Laughlin ÃÂ Cellaigh
, chief.
References