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Events from the year 1596 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: Elizabeth I

Events

• June – Sir John Norreys and Sir Geoffrey Fenton travel from England to Connacht to parley with the local lords.
• An envoy of King Philip II of Spain arrives to make inquiries of survivors of the Spanish Armada in Ireland but is successful in only eight cases.

Births

Deaths

• Donald McCarthy, Earl of Clancare, noble.