1544 in Ireland

• Monarch: Henry VIII

• July 19 – September 18: First Siege of Boulogne in France during the Italian War of 1542–1546.{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=147–150|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}} An Irish contingent serving with the English army is led by Piers Power, 2nd Lord Le Power and Curraghmore{{cite book|editor1-last=Moody|editor1-first=T. W.|editor2-last=Martin|editor2-first=F. X.|editor3-last=Byrne|editor3-first=F. J.|title=A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1989|isbn=978-0-19-821744-2}} who is fatally wounded.{{citation|work=The Power (LePoer) Genealogy|url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dnapower/history/bartholomewbooks/robertdepoer.pdf|first=Grace Cabot Blood|last=Toler|title=Addenda To the Genealogical Record Of the Descendants of Richard Blood...|page=2|access-date=2013-02-11}}
• The Annals of Connacht end.

• Christopher Nugent, noble (d. 1602)

• c. March – Ulick na gCeann Burke, 1st Earl of Clanricarde, Clanricarde.

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