1602 in Ireland

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Events

• 3 January - Nine Years' War: The English defeat Irish rebels and their Spanish allies at the Siege of Kinsale.
• 12 January - Juan del Águila surrenders the Spanish troops in Ireland.
• 5–18 June - Nine Years' War: The English defeat Irish rebels at the Siege of Dunboy. The Jesuit chaplain Dominic Collins is arrested, tortured and hanged by the English at Youghal.

Publications

• The first New Testament translation into Irish (Tiomna Nuadh), completed by William Daniel, Prebendary of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, is published.

Deaths

• 17 August? - Sir Christopher Nugent, nobleman (born 1544).
• 10 September - Hugh Roe O'Donnell, Prince of Tyrconnell, leader in the Nine Years War (born 1572).
• 31 October - Dominic Collins, Catholic martyr (born 1566).
• 31 December - Maoilín Óg Mac Bruaideadha, poet.
• Sir Edmund Butler of Cloughgrenan, rebel (born 1534).
• Edmund Butler, 2nd Viscount Mountgarret, nobleman (born c.1562).