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March 9 - Walter Devereux, Earl of Essex, is appointed Earl Marshal of Ireland.^[1]
April - Sir Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland, shires Connacht into Galway, Mayo, Roscommon and Sligo.^[1]
June - The rebel sons of Richard Burke, Earl of Clanricarde, attack Athenry. They are captured and imprisoned in Dublin but escape.^[1]
June 20 - Sir William Drury is appointed President of Munster.^[2]
September - The Earl of Essex returns to Dublin but dies within three weeks^[1] of dysentery.

1 2 3 4 Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
↑ Kelsey, Sean (2004). "Drury, Sir William (1527–1579)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/8101. Retrieved 2012-12-18. (subscription or UK public library membership required)

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