1554 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1554 in Ireland.

Incumbent[]

  • Monarch: Mary I

Events[]

  • April 14 – George Dowdall, Archbishop of Armagh, is commissioned to deprive married clergy of their offices.[1]
  • May 13 – the Earldom of Kildare is revived in favour of Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl.[1]
  • June 29 – Edward Staples, Bishop of Meath, is deprived of his office as being a married priest.[1] The Cistercian William Walsh is appointed to succeed him on 22 November by letters patent.
  • Gerald FitzGerald, Earl of Kildare and Richard Nugent, Baron Delvin, campaign against Phelim Roc O'Neill of Clandeboye.[1]
  • John Bathe is appointed Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas following the death of Sir Thomas Luttrell.
  • Barnaby Skurloke or Skurlog is appointed Attorney-General for Ireland, the first use of the title in place of King's Attorney.[2]

Births[]

  • Approximate date – Richard Field, Jesuit (d. 1606)

Deaths[]

  • Cahir mac Art Kavanagh, Lord of St. Molyns, baron of Ballyann.
  • Sir Thomas Luttrell, lawyer (b. c.1490)

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d 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.
  2. ^ Casey, James (1996). The Irish Law Officers. Dublin: Round Hall Sweet & Maxwell. ISBN 1858000610.
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