Events from the year 1591 in Ireland. Incumbent Monarch: Elizabeth I Events February – Brian O'Rourke, rebel lord of West Bréifne, seeks right of asylum in the Kingdom of Scotland. 20 March – Seamus Ó hÉilidhe is appointed Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam. 3 April – Brian O'Rourke is arrested in Glasgow and delivered to the English. 3 November – O'Rourke is hanged at Tyburn. His son, Brian Oge O'Rourke, succeeds as lord. November – Barnabe Riche proposes action against Roman Catholic recusants. 26 December – Hugh Roe O'Donnell escapes from Dublin Castle 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 O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, elopes with Mabel, sister of Henry Bagenal, Provincial President of Ulster.
Births Michael Wadding, Jesuit theologian and missionary priest (d. 1644)
Deaths Early? – Sir Nicholas Bagenal, marshal of the army in Ireland (b. 1509/10) 3 November – Brian O'Rourke, lord of West Bréifne (b. 1540?) (hanged) Tadhg Dall Ó hÚigínn, poet (b. c.1550)
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