1585 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1585 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: Elizabeth I

• January – Sorley Boy MacDonnell lands at Cushendun with a substantial army, but after initial successes is driven back to Scotland.
• 26 April – 25 May –
  Nicholas Walsh as Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare, is permitted to take his seat.^[2]
• April –
  Franciscan convent.^[3]
• 15 July –
  Ó Flaithbertaigh in Galway
  .
• July–August – Sir John Perrot, Lord Deputy of Ireland, is in Ulster; he confirms agreement between the O'Neill dynasty on 10 August^[1] and establishes County Coleraine (as the County of Colerain) and County Monaghan.
• October – Sorley Boy MacDonnell, having returned to Ireland, recaptures Dunluce Castle.^[1]
• 16 November – Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare, dies in exile in London^[2] and is succeeded by his son Henry FitzGerald.
• 14 December – Nicholas Walsh, Church of Ireland Bishop of Ossory, is stabbed to death in his house in Kilkenny by a disaffected member of his flock.^[4]
• December – Munster Plantation planned.^[1]
• Tadhg mac Diarmata, last de facto
  MacDermot
  of the Carrick".

Arts and literature

• Tuileagna Ó Maoil Chonaire composes the poem Labhram ar iongnaibh Éireann.
• Máel Sechnaill Ruadh Ó Braonáin of Galway is recorded as one of the last harpers of the period in Connacht.

Births

• Thomas Preston, 1st Viscount Tara, soldier (d. 1655)
• Possible date – Sir Dominick Browne, merchant and landowner (d. c.1656)

Deaths

• 30 April –
  Roman Catholic
  priest and martyr.
• 16 November – Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare (b. 1525)
• 14 December – Nicholas Walsh, Church of Ireland Bishop of Ossory and biblical translator.

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