1418 in Ireland

Events

• The Great Book of Lecan is completed at Enniscrone..
• James FitzGerald, 6th Earl of Desmond deprived Thomas FitzGerald, 5th Earl of Desmond of his earldom and dispossess him for marrying far below his station. The marriage between a man of Norman ancestry and a woman of Gaelic blood was in violation of the Statutes of Kilkenny.

  Births

• James Ormonde, Lord Treasurer of Ireland, Earl of Ormonde

  Deaths

• Gilla Isa Mor mac Donnchadh MacFhirbhisigh, historian, scribe and poet.