1642 in Ireland

Events

• March 19 - The citizens of Galway seize an English naval ship and close the town gates in support of the Irish Rebellion of 1641.
• March 26 - Siege of Drogheda broken by English reinforcements.^[1]
• July - Battle of Liscarroll: Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin, leading an English force, routs an Irish rebel army under Garret Barry advancing on Cork.
• August 4 - Alexander Forbes, 10th Lord Forbes, relieves Forthill and besieges Galway.
• c. August - Covenanter Campbell soldiers of the Argyll's Foot, encouraged by their commanding officer Sir Duncan Campbell of Auchinbreck, massacre the Catholic MacDonald residents of Rathlin Island.^[2][3]
• September 7 - Lord Forbes raises his unsuccessful siege of Galway.
• October - Largely-Catholic Royalist Confederate Ireland established, based in Kilkenny; start of the Irish Confederate Wars.^[4]

Births

Deaths

• 6 June - Robert Digby, 1st Baron Digby, peer and Governor of King's County.
• 29 September - David Barry, 1st Earl of Barrymore, dies of wounds received at the Battle of Liscarroll (b.1604).

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