Events from the year 1575 in Ireland. Incumbent Monarch: Elizabeth I Events Walter Devereux, Earl of Essex, has members of the clan O'Neill killed at Banbridge. March 16 – Edmund O'Donnell is hanged, drawn and quartered in Cork as a traitor, the first Jesuit executed by the English government. May–August – drought.Annals of the Four Masters. May 22 – Elizabeth I of England orders Essex to break off his enterprise of the plantation of Antrim. He will return to England at the end of the year. June – Essex builds a bridge and fort at Blackwater (north of Armagh). June 27 – Turlough Luineach O'Neill submits to the English authorities and receives extensive grants of lands and permission to employ 300 Scottish mercenaries. July 20–26 – Rathlin Island Massacre: English adventurers Francis Drake and John Norreys, acting for the Earl of Essex, lead an expedition that culminates in the massacre of 500 of the clan MacDonnell in a surprise raid on Rathlin Island. August–September – Plague in Leinster. August 5 – Sir Henry Sidney is reappointed Lord Deputy of Ireland following the resignation of Sir William FitzWilliam. Deaths March 16 – Edmund O'Donnell, Jesuit (b. 1542) November 27 – Sir Peter Carew, English adventurer in Ireland (b. 1514?) Christopher Barnewall, statesman (b. 1522)
Arts and literature Approximate date – the manuscript now known as Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 10 is copied at Ballycumin, County Roscommon, by Aodh, Dubhthach and Torna of the Ó Maolconaire family.
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