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1653 in Ireland
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1653
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.Millett Benignus The Irish Franciscans, 1651-1665 1964 Gregorian Biblical BookShop 9788876521027 25 https://books.google.com/books?id=6SwR_7jA_3cC&pg=PR25 en
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 WarsConnolly S. J. Divided Kingdom: Ireland 1630-1800 2008 OUP Oxford 9780199543472 104 https://books.google.com/books?id=MKgVDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA104 en
September 26 – an act provides for transplanting all native Irish people into Connacht.Ohlmeyer Jane Making Ireland English: The Irish Aristocracy in the Seventeenth Century 2012 Yale University Press 978-0300118346 288 https://books.google.com/books?id=zHZYbeg-zeoC&pg=PA288 en
December 16 – Cromwell proclaimed Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.Oliver Cromwell and family http://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/oliver-cromwell www.westminster-abbey.org 5 April 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20091016091059/http://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/oliver-cromwell 2009-10-16 dead
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
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