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1653 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1653 in Ireland.

Incumbent

  • Lord Protector: Oliver Cromwell (from 16 December)

Events

  • January 6 – a law declares any Roman Catholic priest in Ireland to be guilty of treason.
  • April 27 – the last Irish forces (the remnants of the Confederate's Ulster Army, led by Philip O'Reilly) 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 (k. 1692)

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 (b. c.1563)
  • Hugh O'Reilly, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh (b. c.1581)

References

References

  1. (1964). "The Irish Franciscans, 1651-1665". Gregorian Biblical BookShop.
  2. (2008). "Divided Kingdom: Ireland 1630-1800". OUP Oxford.
  3. (2012). "Making Ireland English: The Irish Aristocracy in the Seventeenth Century". Yale University Press.
  4. "Oliver Cromwell and family".
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