1642 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1642 in Ireland.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 24 October - The first Confederate Assembly is held in Kilkenny where it sets up a provisional government.
• c. 14 November - The Confederate Assembly elects a Supreme Council.
• The Presbytery of Ulster, a predecessor of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, is created by chaplains of the Presbyterian Scottish army in Ulster.

Deaths

• 7 February - William Bedell, Church of Ireland Bishop of Kilmore (b. 1571)
• 6 June - Robert Digby, 1st Baron Digby, peer and Governor of King's County.
• 29 September - David Barry, 1st Earl of Barrymore, dies of wounds received at the Battle of Liscarroll (b. 1604)