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.
• June – Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone abandons and burns his capital Dungannon.

  Publications

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

  Births

Deaths

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