1581 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 1581 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch

Elizabeth I

Events

• April 19 – general pardon offered to participants in the Second Desmond Rebellion (other than the leaders).^[1]
• Dermot O'Hurley appointed Archbishop of Cashel by Pope Gregory XIII, but is unable to enter Ireland until 1583 when he was imprisoned in Dublin Castle and hanged for treason in 1584.^[2]
• John Derricke publishes The Image of Irelande, with a Discoverie of Woodkarne.^[3]

Births

• January 4 – James Ussher, Anglican Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, published the Ussher chronology purporting to time and date creation (died 1656).^[4]

Deaths

• Nicholas Sanders, English Catholic priest and an exiled leader of the Second Desmond Rebellion (b. c.1530).^[5]

Notes and References

1. Book: Rapple. Rory. Martial Power and Elizabethan Political Culture: Military Men in England and Ireland, 1558-1594. 2009. Cambridge University Press. 9780521843539. 244. en.
2. Millett. Benignus. The Ordination of Dermot O Hurley, 1581. 30004636. Collectanea Hibernica. 12–21. 1983. 25.
3. Web site: John Derricke's Images of Ireland, 1581 AD. irisharchaeology.ie. 4 April 2018.
4. Web site: James Ussher. www.westminster-abbey.org. 4 April 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20171227122259/http://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/james-ussher. 2017-12-27. dead.
5. Sander [Sanders], Nicholas (c. 1530–1581), religious controversialist]. 2004. 4 April 2018. en. 10.1093/ref:odnb/24621. Mayer. T. F..