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Events

February - Brian O'Rourke, rebel lord of West Bréifne, seeks right of asylum in the Kingdom of Scotland.
March 20 - Seamus Ó hÉilidhe is appointed Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam.^[1]
April 3 - Brian O'Rourke is arrested in Glasgow and delivered to the English.
November 3 - 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]
December 26 - 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 Roe MacMahon, The MacMahon, resists the imposition of an English sheriff in County Monaghan; he is charged with treason, for which he will be executed, and his lordship divided.^[3]^[4]
Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, elopes with Mabel, sister of Henry Bagenal, Provincial President of Ulster.

↑ 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.
1 2 3 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.
↑ Hill, George (2004). The Fall of Irish Chiefs and Clans and the Plantation of Ulster. p. 48. Retrieved 2012-11-08.
↑ Ranelagh, John (1994). A Short History of Ireland (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-46944-9.

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