1653 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1653 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Lord Protector: Oliver Cromwell (from 16 December)

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

1. Millett, Benignus (1964). The Irish Franciscans, 1651-1665. Gregorian Biblical BookShop. p. 25. ISBN 9788876521027.
2. Connolly, S. J. (2008). Divided Kingdom: Ireland 1630-1800. OUP Oxford. p. 104. ISBN 9780199543472.
3. Ohlmeyer, Jane (2012). Making Ireland English: The Irish Aristocracy in the Seventeenth Century. Yale University Press. p. 288. ISBN 978-0300118346.
4. "Oliver Cromwell and family". www.westminster-abbey.org. Archived from the original on 2009-10-16. Retrieved 5 April 2018.