1653 in Ireland

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Events

• 6 January - A law declares any Roman Catholic priest in Ireland to be guilty of treason.
• 27 April - The last Irish forces (the remnants of the Confederate's Ulster Army, led by Philip O'Reilly) formally surrender at Cloughoughter in County Cavan to the Cromwellian army ending the Confederate Wars
• 26 September - An Act provides for transplanting all native Irish people into Connacht.
• 16 December - Cromwell proclaimed Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.

Births

• William Stewart, 1st Viscount Mountjoy, soldier (k. 1692)

Deaths

• August
  • Phelim O'Neill, hanged in Dublin by the English Parliamentarians for his role in the Irish Rebellion of 1641
  • Piaras Feiritéar, poet, hanged in Killarney by the English Parliamentarians for his role in the Rebellion of 1641.
• Niall Ó Glacáin, physician (b. c.1563)
• Hugh O'Reilly, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh (b. c.1581)

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