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Events from the 1520s in Ireland

Events

 * 1520
 * James Fitzgerald became the 10th Earl of Desmond.
 * 1521
 * George Cromer (died 1543) was appointed (Church of Ireland) Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland under Henry VIII.
 * 1522
 * Hugh Inge, Primate of Ireland appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
 * 1523
 * January – Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare was permitted to return to Ireland.
 * 1524
 * June – Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare was exonerated in a Royal inquiry at Christ Church, Dublin.
 * 1527
 * Edmond de Burca is succeeded as Mac William Iochtar by Seaán an Tearmainn Bourke.
 * Edmund Butler, archbishop of Cashel, is consecrated.
 * James Butler, 9th earl of Ormond, becomes Esquire of the Body to King Henry VIII.
 * John Rawson, 1st and only Viscount Clontarf, is appointed commander of the light infantry of Order of St. John of Jerusalem.
 * Rychard Martin is succeeded as Mayor of Galway by William Morris.
 * 1528
 * Conchobhar mac Toirdhealbaig Ó Briain becomes the last King of Thomond
 * John Alen, Primate of Ireland appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland
 * 1529

Births

 * 1522
 * Christopher Barnewall, statesman (d. 1575)
 * 1525
 * Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare (d. 1585)
 * 1526
 * Edmund Tanner (d. 1579 in Ireland), Irish Jesuit, Roman Catholic Bishop of Cork and Cloyne, from 1574 to 1579.
 * 1527
 * March 21 – Edward Fitton, the elder, Lord President of Connaught and Thomond and the Vice-Treasurer of Ireland (died 1579).
 * May 21 – Philip II of Spain, King of England and Ireland (died 1598).
 * October 2 – William Drury, Lord President of Munster and Lord Justice of Ireland, is born in Hawstead, Suffolk (died 1579).
 * Elizabeth FitzGerald, Countess of Lincoln, Irish noblewoman (died 1590).
 * John Garvey, Protestant Bishop of Kilmore and Archbishop of Armagh (died 1595).
 * John Hooker, Member of parliament for Athenry (died 1601).
 * William Good, English Jesuit teacher in Limerick (died 1586).
 * 1529
 * September – Richard Gare Lynch becomes Mayor of Galway.
 * Thomas Fitzgerald (1454–1534), becomes Earl succeeding his uncle James FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Desmond.
 * William Skeffington was appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland to Henry's son, the duke of Richmond, the nominal Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Deaths

 * 1520
 * Ulick Óge Burke, 8th lord of Clanricarde
 * 1521
 * 29 November – William Rokeby, a leading statesman and cleric in the early sixteenth-century, who held the offices of Bishop of Meath, Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
 * 1522
 * Thomas Rochfort (b. c 1450) was a distinguished Irish judge and cleric who held the offices of Solicitor General for Ireland
 * 1526
 * Nicholas St Lawrence, 4th Baron Howth, Irish soldier and statesman of the early Tudor period.
 * 1527
 * September 30 – Donnchadh mac Eoghan Ó Duinnshléibhe, Irish physician.
 * John Rycardes, Master of the Rolls in Ireland and Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral.
 * 1529
 * June 18 – James FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Desmond died in Dingle.