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1593 in Ireland
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1593
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.Chambers Anne Ireland's Pirate Queen: The True Story of Grace O'Malley New York MJF Books 2003 978-1-56731-858-6 2nd registration https://archive.org/details/irelandspiratequ0000cham
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
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