1459 in Ireland

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See also:	Other events of 1459 List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1459 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Lord: Henry VI

• Richard Duke of York, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, returns on a second visit to Ireland.^[1]
• Irish Parliament, meeting at
  Richard Duke of York's authority against Henry VI and an English Act of Attainder.^[1]

• James FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Desmond

Deaths

Edmund Oldhall, an English-born cleric and judge in fifteenth-century Ireland. He was Bishop of Meath and acting Lord Chancellor of Ireland. He was a brother of the leading Yorkist statesman Sir William Oldhall.

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