1602 in Ireland
Events from the year 1602 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- January 3 – Nine Years' War: The English defeat Irish rebels and their Spanish allies at the siege of Kinsale.
- January 12 – Juan del Águila surrenders the Spanish troops in Ireland.
- June 5–18 – Nine Years' War: The English defeat Irish rebels at the siege of Dunboy. The Jesuit chaplain Dominic Collins is arrested, tortured and hanged by the English at Youghal.
- June – Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone abandons and burns his capital Dungannon.
Publications
- The first New Testament translation into Irish, completed by William Daniel, Prebendary of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, is published.
Deaths
- August 17? – Sir Christopher Nugent, nobleman
- September 10 – Hugh Roe O'Donnell, Prince of Tyrconnell, leader in the Nine Years War
- October 31 – Dominic Collins, Catholic martyr
- December 31 – Maoilín Óg Mac Bruaideadha, poet.
- Sir Edmund Butler of Cloughgrenan, rebel
- Edmund Butler, 2nd Viscount Mountgarret, nobleman