1653 in Ireland

Incumbent

• Lord Protector: Oliver Cromwell

  Events

• January 6 – a law declares any Roman Catholic priest in Ireland to be guilty of treason.
• April 27 – the last Irish forces formally surrender at Cloughoughter in County Cavan to the Cromwellian army ending the Confederate Wars
• September 26 – an act provides for transplanting all native Irish people into Connacht.
• December 16 – Cromwell proclaimed Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.

  Births

• William Stewart, 1st Viscount Mountjoy, soldier

  Deaths

• August
• *Phelim O'Neill, hanged in Dublin by the English Parliamentarians for his role in the Irish Rebellion of 1641
• *Piaras Feiritéar, poet, hanged in Killarney by the English Parliamentarians for his role in the Rebellion of 1641.
• Niall Ó Glacáin, physician
• Hugh O'Reilly, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh