1575 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1575 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- Walter Devereux, Earl of Essex, has members of the clan O'Neill killed at Banbridge.
- March 16 – Edmund O'Donnell is hanged, drawn and quartered in Cork as a traitor, the first Jesuit executed by the English government.
- May–August – drought.[1]
- May 22 – Elizabeth I of England orders Essex to break off his enterprise of the plantation of Antrim.[2] He will return to England at the end of the year.
- June – Essex builds a bridge and fort at Blackwater (north of Armagh).[2]
- June 27 – Turlough Luineach O'Neill submits to the English authorities and receives extensive grants of lands and permission to employ 300 Scottish mercenaries.
- July 20–26 – Rathlin Island Massacre: English adventurers Francis Drake and John Norreys, acting for the Earl of Essex, lead an expedition that culminates in the massacre of 500 of the clan MacDonnell in a surprise raid on Rathlin Island.[2][3]
- August–September – Plague in Leinster.[2]
- August 5 – Sir Henry Sidney is reappointed Lord Deputy of Ireland[4] following the resignation of Sir William FitzWilliam.
Births
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Deaths
- March 16 – Edmund O'Donnell, Jesuit (b. 1542)
- November 27 – Sir Peter Carew, English adventurer in Ireland (b. 1514?)
- Christopher Barnewall, statesman (b. 1522)[5]
Arts and literature
- Approximate date – the manuscript now known as Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 10 is copied at Ballycumin, County Roscommon, by Aodh, Dubhthach and Torna of the Ó Maolconaire family.
References
- ^ Annals of the Four Masters.
- ^ a b c d Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
- ^ Kelsey, Harry (September 2004). "Drake, Sir Francis (1540–1596)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online, May 2007 ed.). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2012-12-20. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ^ Wagner, John (1999). Historical Dictionary of the Elizabethan World: Britain, Ireland, Europe, and America. Phoenix: Oryx. p. 278. ISBN 1573562009.
- ^ Kinney, A.; Lawson, J. (2014). Titled Elizabethans: A Directory of Elizabethan Court, State, and Church Officers, 1558–1603. Springer. p. 1644. ISBN 9781137461483.