1602 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1602 in Ireland.

Events

• January 3 - Nine Years' War: The English defeat Irish rebels and their Spanish allies at the Siege of Kinsale.
• January 12 - Juan del Águila surrenders the Spanish troops in Ireland.
• June 5–18 - Nine Years' War: The English defeat Irish rebels at the Siege of Dunboy. The Jesuit chaplain Dominic Collins is arrested, tortured and hanged by the English at Youghal.^[1]
• June - Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone abandons and burns his capital Dungannon.

Publications

• The first New Testament translation into Irish (Tiomna Nuadh), completed by William Daniel, Prebendary of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, is published.

Deaths

• August 17? - Sir Christopher Nugent, nobleman (b. 1544)
• September 10 - Hugh Roe O'Donnell, Prince of Tyrconnell, leader in the Nine Years War (b. 1572)
• October 31 - Dominic Collins, Catholic martyr (b. 1566)
• December 31 - Maoilín Óg Mac Bruaideadha, poet.
• Sir Edmund Butler of Cloughgrenan, rebel (b. 1534)
• Edmund Butler, 2nd Viscount Mountgarret, nobleman (b. c.1562)

References

1. Forristal, D. (1992). Dominic Collins: Irish martyr, Jesuit brother. Dublin.