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List of events
Events from the year 1585 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- January –
Sorley Boy MacDonnell lands at
Cushendun with a substantial army, but after initial successes is driven back to
Scotland.
- 26 April – 25 May –
Parliament of Ireland meets in
Dublin
[1] with Sir
Nicholas Walsh as Speaker of the
Irish House of Commons.
Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare, is permitted to take his seat.
[2]
- April –
Roman Catholic
recusants in
Clonmel are betrayed and seized at
Passion Sunday
mass by troops of
John Norreys,
Lord President of Munster, and the celebrant, fugitive priest
Maurice MacKenraghty, gives himself up, is immediately tried under
martial law as a traitor, and executed. His head is set up in Clonmel market place and his body buried behind the high altar of the
Franciscan convent.
[3]
- 15 July –
Composition of Connacht: A commission is given to Sir
Richard Bingham, governor of
Connacht, and others to make agreements with landowners in the province by 3 October.
[1]
Murrough na dTuadh Ó Flaithbheartaigh is recognised as
Chief of the Name of
Ó Flaithbertaigh in
Galway.
- July–August – Sir
John Perrot,
Lord Deputy of Ireland, is in Ulster; he confirms agreement between the
O'Neill dynasty on 10 August
[1] and establishes
County Coleraine (as the County of Colerain) and
County Monaghan.
- October –
Sorley Boy MacDonnell, having returned to Ireland, recaptures
Dunluce Castle.
[1]
- 16 November –
Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare, dies in exile in London
[2] and is succeeded by his son
Henry FitzGerald.
- 14 December –
Nicholas Walsh,
Church of Ireland
Bishop of Ossory, is stabbed to death in his house in
Kilkenny by a disaffected member of his flock.
[4]
- December –
Munster Plantation planned.
[1]
- Tadhg mac Diarmata, last de facto
King of Magh Luirg, is succeeded by Brian na Carriag MacDermot, first to be styled "
MacDermot of the Carrick".
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