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1593 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1593 in Ireland.

Incumbent

  • Monarch: Elizabeth I

Events

  • 14 June – English explorer John Davis in the Desire makes landfall at Berehaven at the conclusion of the second Cavendish expedition.
  • 23 June – in a skirmish at Skeanavart in County Roscommon as part of Hugh Maguire (Lord of Fermanagh)'s raid into Connacht, Edmund MacGauran (Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh) is among those killed.
  • Hugh Roe O'Donnell drives the English sheriff out of Tyrconnell and leads two expeditions against Turlough Luineach O'Neill.
  • Pirate queen Grace O'Malley meets with Queen Elizabeth I of England at Greenwich.
  • In Lisbon, John Houling, SJ, and Fr. Peter Fonseca establish the College of St. Patrick for the education of young Irish Roman Catholics.

Births

  • Thomas Arthur, physician (d. 1666?)
  • Thomas Fleming, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin (d. 1665)

Deaths

  • 4 March – Sir William Herbert, Welsh planter in Ireland.
  • 23 June – Edmund MacGauran, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh (b. c.1547)
  • Edward Fitz-Symon, Attorney General for Ireland (b. c.1530)
  • Murrough na dTuadh Ó Flaithbheartaigh, Chief of Iar Connacht.

References

References

  1. Chambers, Anne. (2003). "Ireland's Pirate Queen: The True Story of Grace O'Malley". MJF Books.
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