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See also:	Other events of 1591 ; List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1591 in Ireland.

Incumbent

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.^[1]
3 April – Brian O'Rourke is arrested in Glasgow and delivered to the English.
3 November – O'Rourke is hanged at Tyburn.^[2] His son, Brian Oge O'Rourke, succeeds as lord.
November – Barnabe Riche proposes action against Roman Catholic recusants.^[2]
26 December – Hugh Roe O'Donnell escapes from Dublin Castle^[2] 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 O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, elopes with Mabel, sister of Henry Bagenal, Provincial President of Ulster.^[3]

^ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 443. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
^ ^a ^b ^c Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
^ Clarke, Aidan; Barry, Judy; O'Byrne, Emmett (October 2009). McGuire, James; Quinn, James (eds.). "Bagenal (O'Neill), Mabel". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.3318/dib.006953.v1. Archived from the original on 21 February 2024.