1591 in Ireland
Events from the year 1591 in Ireland.
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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
Deaths
- Early? – Sir Nicholas Bagenal, marshal of the army in Ireland
- 3 November – Brian O'Rourke, lord of West Bréifne
- Tadhg Dall Ó hÚigínn, poet