Events from the year 1418 in Ireland.
Incumbent Lord: Henry V
Events The Great Book of Lecan is completed at Enniscrone. (Started in 1397). James FitzGerald, 6th Earl of Desmond deprived Thomas FitzGerald, 5th Earl of Desmond of his earldom and dispossess him for marrying far below his station.Webb, Alfred. A Compendium of Irish Biography. Dublin: 1878. Catherine was the daughter of one of Thomas's dependants, William MacCormac, known as "the Monk of Feale."Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant. Volume III. London: George Bell & Sons. 1890. p. 85 The marriage between a man of Norman ancestry and a woman of Gaelic blood was in violation of the Statutes of Kilkenny.
Births James Ormonde, Lord Treasurer of Ireland, Earl of Ormonde
Deaths Gilla Isa Mor mac Donnchadh MacFhirbhisigh, historian, scribe and poet.
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