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Events from the year 1578 in Ireland.

• Monarch: Elizabeth I

• In retaliation for the Massacre of Mullaghmast, Rory Óg Ó Moore, leader of the Ó Moore clan in County Laois, burns Carlow, but is hunted down and trapped.
• The ship Emanuel, returning from Martin Frobisher's third voyage to Frobisher Bay, is wrecked at Ard na Caithne.
• Barnabe Rich publishes Alarme to England [ sic].

• 14 December – Joan Apsley, first wife of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork (d. 1599)

• June – Rory Óg Ó Moore, rebel leader (killed and beheaded).

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