1583 in Ireland

Events

• Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond, assumes command of the Crown forces, contains remaining activists in the Second Desmond Rebellion to West Cork and Kerry and persuades many to surrender.
• Dermot O'Hurley, appointed Archbishop of Cashel in 1581, lands on Holmpatrick Strand in County Dublin.
• September – fugitive Roman Catholic priest Maurice MacKenraghty is surprised on Sliabh Luachra by Lord Roche's gallowglasses, handed over to the Earl of Ormond and sent to prison at Clonmel.
• October 8 – archbishop Dermot O'Hurley is arrested and imprisoned in Dublin Castle.
• November 11
• *Gerald FitzGerald, 15th Earl of Desmond, is killed at Glenaginty in the Slieve Mish Mountains by the Moriarty clan of Castledrum on the Dingle Peninsula, bringing an end to the Desmond Rebellions and resulting in the extinction of the Desmond palatinate.
• *John na Seamar Burke is ambushed and killed by his brother Ulick.
• Swords Castle briefly occupied by Dutch Protestants.

  Births

• Richard Nugent, 1st Earl of Westmeath, landowner and politician

  Deaths

• February – Nicholas Skerrett, exiled Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam.
• November 11
• *John na Seamar Burke, rebel.
• *Gerald FitzGerald, 15th Earl of Desmond, rebel.
• December – Thomas Lancaster, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh.