1554 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1554 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: Mary I

Events

• April 14 – George Dowdall, Archbishop of Armagh, is commissioned to deprive married clergy of their offices.^[1]
• May 13 – the Earldom of Kildare is revived in favour of Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl.^[1]
• June 29 – Edward Staples, Bishop of Meath, is deprived of his office as being a married priest.^[1] The Cistercian William Walsh is appointed to succeed him on 22 November by letters patent.
• Gerald FitzGerald, Earl of Kildare and Richard Nugent, Baron Delvin, campaign against Phelim Roc O'Neill of Clandeboye.^[1]
• John Bathe is appointed Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas following the death of Sir Thomas Luttrell.
• Barnaby Skurloke or Skurlog is appointed Attorney-General for Ireland, the first use of the title in place of King's Attorney.^[2]

Births

• Approximate date – Richard Field, Jesuit (d. 1606)

Deaths

• Cahir mac Art Kavanagh, Lord of St. Molyns, baron of Ballyann.
• Sir Thomas Luttrell, lawyer (b. c.1490)

References

1. 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.
2. Casey, James (1996). The Irish Law Officers. Dublin: Round Hall Sweet & Maxwell. ISBN 1858000610.