1605 in Ireland

Events

• February 3 – Sir Arthur Chichester is appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland, an office he will hold for a decade.
• March 11 – a proclamation declares all people of Ireland to be the direct subjects of the British Crown and not of any local lord or chief.
• July 4 – a proclamation commands all Roman Catholic seminary priests and Jesuits to leave the country by 10 December and directs the laity to attend Church of Ireland services.
• October 14 – Thomas Jones is appointed to succeed Adam Loftus as Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
• November 8 – Thomas Jones is appointed to succeed Adam Loftus as Archbishop of Dublin.
• November – Scottish adventurer James Hamilton is granted the lordship of Upper Clandeboye and the Great Ardes in the north of County Down by King James VI and I.
• The Irish College in Paris is co-founded by John Lee, an Irish priest, and John de l'Escalopier, President of the Parlement.
• Refugee French Huguenot merchants begin to settle in Dublin and Waterford.

  Births

• Raymond Caron, Franciscan friar and author
• Lady Hester Pulter, born Hester Ley, poet
• Approximate date – James Dillon, 3rd Earl of Roscommon

  Deaths

• April 5 – Adam Loftus, Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland
• September 24 – Sir George Bourchier, soldier and politician
• Tadhg O'Rourke, King of West Breifne