1653 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1653 in Ireland.
Events
- January 6 – A law declares any Roman Catholic priest in Ireland to be guilty of treason.
- April 27 – 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
- September 26 – An Act provides for transplanting all native Irish people into Connacht.
- December 16 – 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)