1593 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1593 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: Elizabeth I

Events

• 14 June – English explorer John Davis in the Desire makes landfall at Berehaven at the conclusion of the second Cavendish expedition.
• 23 June – in a skirmish at Skeanavart in County Roscommon as part of Hugh Maguire (Lord of Fermanagh)'s raid into Connacht, Edmund MacGauran (Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh) is among those killed.
• Hugh Roe O'Donnell drives the English sheriff out of Tyrconnell and leads two expeditions against Turlough Luineach O'Neill.
• Pirate queen Grace O'Malley meets with Queen Elizabeth I of England at Greenwich.^[1]
• In Lisbon, John Houling, SJ, and Fr. Peter Fonseca establish the College of St. Patrick for the education of young Irish Roman Catholics.

Births

• Thomas Arthur, physician (d. 1666?)
• Thomas Fleming, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin (d. 1665)

Deaths

• 4 March – Sir William Herbert, Welsh planter in Ireland.
• 23 June – Edmund MacGauran, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh (b. c.1547)
• Edward Fitz-Symon, Attorney General for Ireland (b. c.1530)
• Murrough na dTuadh Ó Flaithbheartaigh, Chief of Iar Connacht.

References

1. Chambers, Anne (2003). Ireland's Pirate Queen: The True Story of Grace O'Malley (2nd ed.). New York: MJF Books. ISBN 978-1-56731-858-6.