1459 in Ireland

Centuries:	13th; 14th; 15th; 16th; 17th;
Decades:	1430s; 1440s; 1450s; 1460s; 1470s;
See also:	Other events of 1459 ; List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1459 in Ireland.

Incumbent edit

Lord: Henry VI

Events edit

Richard Duke of York, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, returns on a second visit to Ireland.^[1]
Irish Parliament, meeting at Drogheda, upholds Richard Duke of York's authority against Henry VI and an English Act of Attainder.^[1]

Births edit

James FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Desmond

Deaths edit

Edmund Oldhall, an English-born cleric and judge in fifteenth-century Ireland. He was Bishop of Meath and acting Lord Chancellor of Ireland. He was a brother of the leading Yorkist statesman Sir William Oldhall.

References edit

^ ^a ^b The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland. Foster, RF. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 1989

[FO-1] The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland. Foster, RF. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 1989

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