1653 in Ireland

Events from the year 1653 in Ireland.

Incumbent

 * Lord Protector: Oliver Cromwell (from 16 December)

Events

 * January 6 – a law declares any Roman Catholic priest in Ireland to be guilty of treason.
 * April 27 – the last Irish forces (the remnants of the Confederate's Ulster Army, led by Philip O'Reilly) formally surrender at Cloughoughter in County Cavan to the Cromwellian army ending the Confederate Wars
 * September 26 – an act provides for transplanting all native Irish people into Connacht.
 * December 16 – Cromwell proclaimed Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.

Births

 * William Stewart, 1st Viscount Mountjoy, soldier (k. 1692)

Deaths

 * August
 * Phelim O'Neill, hanged in Dublin by the English Parliamentarians for his role in the Irish Rebellion of 1641
 * Piaras Feiritéar, poet, hanged in Killarney by the English Parliamentarians for his role in the Rebellion of 1641.
 * Niall Ó Glacáin, physician (b. c.1563)
 * Hugh O'Reilly, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh (b. c.1581)