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Events from the year 1585 in Ireland. ==Events== *January - Sorley Boy MacDonnell lands at Cushendun with a substantial army, but after initial successes is driven back to Scotland. *April 26–May 25 - Parliament of Ireland meets in Dublin with Sir Nicholas Walsh as Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare, is permitted to take his seat.〔 〕 *April - Roman Catholic recusants in Clonmel are betrayed and seized at Passion Sunday mass by troops of John Norreys, Lord President of Munster, and the celebrant, fugitive priest Maurice MacKenraghty, gives himself up, is immediately tried under martial law as a traitor, and executed. His head is set up in Clonmel market place and his body buried behind the high altar of the Franciscan convent. *July 15 - Composition of Connacht: A commission is given to Sir Richard Bingham, governor of Connacht, and others to make agreements with landowners in the province by 3 October.〔 Murrough na dTuadh Ó Flaithbheartaigh is recognised as Chief of the Name of Ó Flaithbertaigh in Galway. *July–August - Sir John Perrot, Lord Deputy of Ireland, is in Ulster; he confirms agreement between the O'Neill dynasty on 10 August〔 and establishes County Coleraine (as the County of Colerain) and County Monaghan. *October - Sorley Boy MacDonnell, having returned to Ireland, recaptures Dunluce Castle.〔 *November 16 - Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare, dies in exile in London〔 and is succeeded by his son Henry FitzGerald. *December 14 - Nicholas Walsh, Church of Ireland Bishop of Ossory, is stabbed to death in his house in Kilkenny by a disaffected member of his flock. *December - Munster Plantation planned.〔 *Tadhg mac Diarmata, last ''de facto'' King of Magh Luirg, is succeeded by Brian na Carriag MacDermot, first to be styled "MacDermot of the Carrick". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1585 in Ireland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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