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← 1595 1594 1593 1592 1591 1596 in Ireland → 1597 1598 1599 1600 1601
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See also:	Other events of 1596 List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1596 in Ireland.

• Monarch: Elizabeth I

• June – Sir John Norreys and Sir Geoffrey Fenton travel from England to Connacht to parley with the local lords.
• An envoy of King Philip II of Spain arrives to make inquiries of survivors of the Spanish Armada in Ireland but is successful in only eight cases.

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• Donald McCarthy, Earl of Clancare, noble.^[1]