Richard "the Iron" Bourke

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Richard Bourke 18th Mac William Iochtar
Risdeárd an Iarainn Búrca
Arms of Bourke of Mayo
Died	1583

Richard "the Iron" Bourke, 18th Mac William Iochtar (Lower Mac William) (Irish: Risdeárd an Iarainn Bourke; English: /bɜːrk/; BURK; d. 1583) was an Irish chieftain and noble.

Burke was a son of David de Burca, 15th Mac William Iochtar, by his second wife, . He was second husband to Grace O'Malley.

In English he was known as Richard Bourke, or "Iron Richard". In medieval Ireland Richard was a rare name, most found in Norman-origin families like the Bourkes. He was the father of several children, including Tibbot ne Long Bourke, 1st Viscount Mayo.

During the uneven anglicisation of Ireland in the 1500s, by the policy of "Surrender and regrant", Richard signed an agreement with the Crown in 1581 which uniquely left him in autonomous control of his part of County Mayo.^[1]

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• The History of Mayo, Hubert T. Knox. 1908.
• Lower Mac William and Viscounts of Mayo, 1332-1649, in A New History of Ireland IX, pp. 235–36, Oxford, 1984 (reprinted 2002).

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