1573 in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: Elizabeth I

  Events

• February 23 – James FitzMaurice FitzGerald submits to John Perrot, Lord Deputy of Ireland, at Kilmallock.
• March 25 – Gerald FitzGerald, 15th Earl of Desmond, returns to Ireland. He is detained in Dublin but escapes about 11 November.
• April 14 – grant of denization to Sorley Boy MacDonnell and other settlers from Scotland.
• May – Brian O'Neill of Clandeboye burns Carrickfergus.
• June – a warrant is given for the restoration of his lands to Connor O'Brien, 3rd Earl of Thomond.
• July 9 – Elizabeth I of England grants Walter Devereux, Earl of Essex, the right to plant most of County Antrim. He sets out with a military force from England to do so, but his ships are dispersed by storm.
• September 29 – Essex is granted a commission of "general captainship in all Ulster". His troops encamp for the winter at Belfast while opposition is gathered by Brian O'Neill and Turlough Luineach O'Neill.
• October 20 – Planter Thomas Smith the younger is shot in Ards.
• October – Essex and Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, act against Brian O'Neill.
• c. October – David Wolfe, papal legate to Ireland, goes to Spain.
• Walter Ball, who subsequently became Mayor of Dublin and imprisoned his mother Margaret Ball on religious grounds, becomes an Alderman of Dublin.

  Births

• David Rothe, Roman Catholic Bishop of Ossory

  Deaths

• December 27 – James Stanihurst, politician
• Robert Weston, Dean of the Arches and Lord Chancellor of Ireland
• Approximate date – Arthur O'Friel, Roman Catholic cleric