1653_in_Ireland Knowpia

Centuries:	15th; 16th; 17th; 18th; 19th;
Decades:	1630s; 1640s; 1650s; 1660s; 1670s;
See also:	Other events of 1653 ; List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1653 in Ireland.

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January 6 – a law declares any Roman Catholic priest in Ireland to be guilty of treason.^[1]
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^[2]
September 26 – an act provides for transplanting all native Irish people into Connacht.^[3]
December 16 – Cromwell proclaimed Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.^[4]

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)

^ Millett, Benignus (1964). The Irish Franciscans, 1651-1665. Gregorian Biblical BookShop. p. 25. ISBN 9788876521027.
^ Connolly, S. J. (2008). Divided Kingdom: Ireland 1630-1800. OUP Oxford. p. 104. ISBN 9780199543472.
^ Ohlmeyer, Jane (2012). Making Ireland English: The Irish Aristocracy in the Seventeenth Century. Yale University Press. p. 288. ISBN 978-0300118346.
^ "Oliver Cromwell and family". www.westminster-abbey.org. Archived from the original on 2009-10-16. Retrieved 5 April 2018.