1575 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 1575 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch

Elizabeth I

Events

• Walter Devereux, Earl of Essex, has members of the clan O'Neill killed at Banbridge.
• March 16 – Edmund O'Donnell is hanged, drawn and quartered in Cork as a traitor, the first Jesuit executed by the English government.
• May - August – drought.^[1]
• May 22 – Elizabeth I of England orders Essex to break off his enterprise of the plantation of Antrim.^[2] He will return to England at the end of the year.
• June – Essex builds a bridge and fort at Blackwater (north of Armagh).^[2]
• June 27 – Turlough Luineach O'Neill submits to the English authorities and receives extensive grants of lands and permission to employ 300 Scottish mercenaries.
• July 20 - 26 – Rathlin Island Massacre: English adventurers Francis Drake and John Norreys, acting for the Earl of Essex, lead an expedition that culminates in the massacre of 500 of the clan MacDonnell in a surprise raid on Rathlin Island.^{[2] [3]}
• August - September – Plague in Leinster.^[2]
• August 5 – Sir Henry Sidney is reappointed Lord Deputy of Ireland^[4] following the resignation of Sir William FitzWilliam.

Deaths

• March 16 – Edmund O'Donnell, Jesuit (b. 1542)
• November 27 – Sir Peter Carew, English adventurer in Ireland (b. 1514?)
• Christopher Barnewall, statesman (b. 1522)^[5]

Arts and literature

• Approximate date – the manuscript now known as Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 10 is copied at Ballycumin, County Roscommon, by Aodh, Dubhthach and Torna of the Ó Maolconaire family.

Notes and References

1. [Annals of the Four Masters]
2. Book: Moody, T. W.. A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. 1989. 978-0-19-821744-2. etal.
3. Web site: Harry. Kelsey. Drake, Sir Francis (1540–1596). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. September 2004. Online, May 2007. 2012-12-20.
4. Book: Wagner, John. Historical Dictionary of the Elizabethan World: Britain, Ireland, Europe, and America. Phoenix. Oryx. 1999. 1573562009. 278.
5. Book: Kinney. A.. Lawson. J.. Titled Elizabethans: A Directory of Elizabethan Court, State, and Church Officers, 1558–1603. 2014. Springer. 9781137461483. 1644. en.