1653 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1653 in Ireland.
Events
- January 6 – a law declares any Roman Catholic priest in Ireland to be guilty of treason.[1]
- 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[2]
- September 26 – an act provides for transplanting all native Irish people into Connacht.[3]
- December 16 – Cromwell proclaimed Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.[4]
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
- Millett, Benignus (1964). The Irish Franciscans, 1651-1665. Gregorian Biblical BookShop. p. 25. ISBN 9788876521027.
- Connolly, S. J. (2008). Divided Kingdom: Ireland 1630-1800. OUP Oxford. p. 104. ISBN 9780199543472.
- Ohlmeyer, Jane (2012). Making Ireland English: The Irish Aristocracy in the Seventeenth Century. Yale University Press. p. 288. ISBN 978-0300118346.
- "Oliver Cromwell and family". www.westminster-abbey.org. Archived from the original on 2009-10-16. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
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