1459 in Ireland

Events from the year 1459 in Ireland.

Incumbent

Lord: Henry VI

Events

Richard Plantagenet, 3rd [Duke of York|Richard Duke of York], Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, returns on a second visit to Ireland.
Irish Parliament, meeting at Drogheda, upholds Richard Duke of York's authority against Henry VI and an English Act of Attainder.

Births

James FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Desmond

Deaths

, an English-born cleric and judge in fifteenth-century Ireland. He was Bishop of Meath and acting Lord Chancellor of Ireland. He was a brother of the leading Yorkist statesman Sir William Oldhall.