1591 in Ireland

Events from the year 1591 in Ireland.

Incumbent

 * Monarch: Elizabeth I

Events

 * February – Brian O'Rourke, rebel lord of West Bréifne, seeks right of asylum in the Kingdom of Scotland.
 * 20 March – Seamus Ó hÉilidhe is appointed Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam.
 * 3 April – Brian O'Rourke is arrested in Glasgow and delivered to the English.
 * 3 November – O'Rourke is hanged at Tyburn. His son, Brian Oge O'Rourke, succeeds as lord.
 * November – Barnabe Riche proposes action against Roman Catholic recusants.
 * 26 December – Hugh Roe O'Donnell escapes from Dublin Castle but is recaptured within days.
 * Early 1591–Autumn 1592 – Edmund MacGauran, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh, travels in Spain and Portugal seeking financial and military assistance for an uprising in Ireland.
 * Hugh Roe MacMahon, The MacMahon, resists the imposition of an English sheriff in County Monaghan; he is charged with treason, for which he will be executed, and his lordship divided.
 * Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, elopes with Mabel, sister of Henry Bagenal, Provincial President of Ulster.

Births

 * Michael Wadding, Jesuit theologian and missionary priest (d. 1644)

Deaths

 * Early? – Sir Nicholas Bagenal, marshal of the army in Ireland (b. 1509/10)
 * 3 November – Brian O'Rourke, lord of West Bréifne (b. 1540?) (hanged)
 * Tadhg Dall Ó hÚigínn, poet (b. c.1550)