1645_in_Ireland Knowpia

Centuries:	15th; 16th; 17th; 18th; 19th;
Decades:	1620s; 1630s; 1640s; 1650s; 1660s;
See also:	Other events of 1645 ; List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1645 in Ireland.

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Irish Confederate Wars: Lismore town and castle are sacked by a force of the Irish Confederacy commanded by Lord Castlehaven.
January 20–March 18 – Siege of Duncannon: Confederate general Thomas Preston takes Duncannon.
April 23 (Saint George's Day) – English Civil War: one hundred and fifty Irish soldiers bound for service with King Charles I of England are captured at sea by Parliamentarians and killed at Pembroke in Wales.
October 27 – Catholic Bishop Malachy Ó Caollaidhe is killed by Scottish forces during a Confederate expedition to Sligo.
The Society of Jesus establishes a school in Galway, the predecessor of Coláiste Iognáid.

Henry Burkhead's closet drama Cola's Fury, or Lirenda's Misery, based on the Irish Rebellion of 1641, is written.^[1]
John Colgan's Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae is published in Leuven.