1591 in Ireland

Events

• February – Brian O'Rourke, rebel lord of West Bréifne, seeks right of asylum in the Kingdom of Scotland.
• March 20 – Seamus Ó hÉilidhe is appointed Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam.
• April 3 – Brian O'Rourke is arrested in Glasgow and delivered to the English.
• November 3 – O'Rourke is hanged at Tyburn. His son, Brian Oge O'Rourke, succeeds as lord.
• November – Barnabe Riche proposes action against Roman Catholic recusants.
• December 26 – Hugh Roe O'Donnell escapes from Dublin Castle but is recaptured within days.
• Early 1591-Autumn 1592 – Edmund MacGauran, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh, travels in Spain and Portugal seeking financial and military assistance for an uprising in Ireland.
• Hugh Roe MacMahon, The MacMahon, resists the imposition of an English sheriff in County Monaghan; he is charged with treason, for which he will be executed, and his lordship divided.
• Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, elopes with Mabel, sister of Henry Bagenal, Provincial President of Ulster.

  Births

• Michael Wadding, Jesuit theologian and missionary priest

  Deaths

• Early? – Sir Nicholas Bagenal, marshal of the army in Ireland
• November 3 – Brian O'Rourke, lord of West Bréifne
• Tadhg Dall Ó hÚigínn, poet