Tag: Hugh O'Neill
#OTD in 1602 – The O'Sullivan Beara's are driven out of West Cork by the English who had defeated the combined Spanish and Irish forces at the Battle of Kinsale.
Donal Cam O'Sullivan Beare, Prince of Beare, 1st Count of Berehaven, was the last independent ruler of the O'Sullivan Beara sept, and thus the last O'Sullivan Beare, a Gaelic princely title, in the southwest of Ireland during the early seventeenth century, when the English crown was attempting to secure their rule over the whole island. […]
#OTD in 1601 – The Battle of Kinsale | Hugh O'Neill and Red Hugh O'Donnell are heavily defeated by Mountjoy.
If any one single battle of Ireland's Nine Years War was pivotal in nature, it is the Battle of Kinsale. Kinsale is a sleepy little port town in the southeastern portion of the country. Through tactical blunder, it became the focus of a battle that would permanently destroy Ireland's hopes for independence during this time […]
#OTD in 1649 – Death of Owen Roe O'Neill.
Eoghan Rua Ó Néill, anglicised as Owen Roe O'Neill "Red Owen", was a seventeenth century soldier and one of the most famous of the O'Neill family of Ulster. An Irish rebel commander during a major Roman Catholic revolt (1641–52) against English rule in Ireland; his victory at Benburb, on 5 June 1646, was one of […]
#OTD in 1641 – Rory O'More, Lord Maguire and Sir Pheilim O'Neill initiate a major revolt in Armagh.
The Irish Uprising of 1641 was a long-term result of the "plantation" policy of Tudor and Stuart monarchs under which Ireland was aggressively colonised by Protestant settlers from England and Scotland. From the mid-16th century, Irish landowners were dispossessed to make way for the settlers and a vicious cycle developed whereby rebellion against the English […]
#OTD in 1600 – O'Neill engages Mountjoy's forces in the Battle of Moyry Pass.
In September of 1600, the Irish forces of Hugh O'Neill, whom the English had made Earl of Tyrone, were in rebellion against the crown. Two years earlier O'Neill and his principle ally "Red" Hugh O'Donnell had routed an English army under Sir Henry Bagenal at Yellow Ford, expelling the English completely from the lands of […]
#OTD in 1601 – Battle of Kinsale.
The Spanish forces arrived in Kinsale, Co Cork in September 1601. However, their army was much smaller than the Irish leaders had hoped for. In spite of this, the Irish were in a good position at the onset of the battle. Red Hugh O'Donnell persuaded a more cautious Hugh O'Neill to attack the assembled English […]
#OTD in Irish History | 14 September:
Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (Formerly, in the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches, the Wednesday, Friday and Saturday following 14 September were observed as one of the four sets of Ember days. In the Irish calendar they were known as Quarter tense). 919 – Death of Niall Glúndub mac Áedo, a 10th-century […]
#OTD in 1607 – The Earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnell, along with a close circle of family and associates, boarded a ship at Rathmullan on Lough Swilly, bound for Spain.
This event has become known as 'The Flight of the Earls' and is widely regarded as one of the most enigmatic events in Irish history, virtually defying explanation. A French ship sailed from the northern harbour of Rathmullan in Lough Swilly. On board were Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, and Rory O'Donnell, Earl of Tyrconnell, […]
#OTD in 1616 – Death in Rome of Aodh Mór Ó Néill (anglicised as Hugh The Great O'Neill), 3rd Baron Dungannon and 2nd Earl of Tyrone.
Born in 1550, Hugh O'Neill (Aodh Mór Ó Neill) was the second son of Mathew Ceallaigh the illegitimate son of Conn Bacach O'Neill who had submitted to Henry VIII in 1542 and was regranted his lands with the English title 1st Earl of Tyrone. Mathew Ceallaigh had been murdered by his half-brother Shane the Proud […]
#OTD in 1595 – Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeats the English forces of his brother-in-law, Sir Henry Bagenal, at the Battle of Clontibret, Co Monaghan; he is proclaimed a traitor at Newry in June.
Hugh O'Neill (Aodh Mór Ó Néill), was a Gaelic lord, Earl of Tyrone (known as the Great Earl) and was later created The Ó Néill. O'Neill's career was played out against the background of the Tudor conquest of Ireland, and he is best known for leading the resistance during the Nine Years' War, the strongest […]
Ireland 1845-52 | The Mersey Ship - "We could be buried along with our people, in the old churchyard, with the green sod over us, instead of lying like rotten sheep thrown in a pit, and the minute the breath is out of our bodies, thrown into the sea to be eaten up by them horrid sharks." Robert Whyte "I spent a considerable part of the day watching a shark that followed in our wake with great constancy... the mate said it was a certain forerunner of death." From The Truth Behind The Irish Famine, 100 images, 472 eye witness quotes: www.jerrymulvihill.com