1459 in Ireland

Events from the year 1459 in Ireland.

Incumbent

 * Lord: Henry VI

Events

 * Richard Duke of York, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, returns on a second visit to Ireland.
 * Irish Parliament, meeting at Drogheda, upholds Richard Duke of York's authority against Henry VI and an English Act of Attainder.

Births

 * James FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Desmond

Deaths
Edmund Oldhall, an English-born cleric and judge in fifteenth-century Ireland. He was Bishop of Meath and acting Lord Chancellor of Ireland. He was a brother of the leading Yorkist statesman Sir William Oldhall.