Events from the year 1593 in Ireland. Incumbent Monarch: Elizabeth I Events 14 June – English explorer John Davis in the Desire makes landfall at Berehaven at the conclusion of the second Cavendish expedition. 23 June – in a skirmish at Skeanavart in County Roscommon as part of Hugh Maguire (Lord of Fermanagh)'s raid into Connacht, Edmund MacGauran (Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh) is among those killed. Hugh Roe O'Donnell drives the English sheriff out of Tyrconnell and leads two expeditions against Turlough Luineach O'Neill. Pirate queen Grace O'Malley meets with Queen Elizabeth I of England at Greenwich. In Lisbon, John Houling, SJ, and Fr. Peter Fonseca establish the College of St. Patrick for the education of young Irish Roman Catholics.
Births Thomas Arthur, physician (d. 1666?) Thomas Fleming, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin (d. 1665)
Deaths 4 March – Sir William Herbert, Welsh planter in Ireland. 23 June – Edmund MacGauran, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh (b. c.1547) Edward Fitz-Symon, Attorney General for Ireland (b. c.1530) Murrough na dTuadh Ó Flaithbheartaigh, Chief of Iar Connacht.
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