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List of events
Events from the year 1642 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- February – English Protestant refugees are massacred at
Shrule by Edmond Bourke's soldiers.
- 19 March – the citizens of
Galway seize an English naval ship and close the town gates in support of the
Irish Rebellion of 1641.
- 26 March –
Siege of Drogheda broken by English reinforcements.
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- 14 April –
Battle of Kilrush: English troops under the
James Butler, Earl of Ormonde defeat Irish rebels under James's cousin,
Richard Butler, 3rd Viscount Mountgarret.
- July –
Battle of Liscarroll:
Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin, leading an English force, routs an Irish rebel army under
Garret Barry advancing on
Cork.
- 4 August –
Alexander Forbes, 10th Lord Forbes, relieves Forthill and besieges Galway.
- c. August –
Covenanter
Campbell soldiers of the Argyll's Foot, encouraged by their commanding officer
Sir Duncan Campbell of Auchinbreck, massacre the
Catholic
MacDonald residents of
Rathlin Island.
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- 7 September – Lord Forbes raises his unsuccessful siege of Galway.
- October – largely-Catholic
Royalist
Confederate Ireland established, based in
Kilkenny; start of the
Irish Confederate Wars.
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- 24 October –
the first Confederate Assembly is held in
Kilkenny where it sets up a
provisional government.
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- c. 14 November – the Confederate Assembly elects a Supreme Council.
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- The Presbytery of Ulster, a predecessor of the
Presbyterian Church in Ireland, is created by chaplains of the Presbyterian Scottish army in
Ulster.
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