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    Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone (Irish: Aodh Mór Ó Néill; c. 1550 – 20 July 1616) was an Irish Gaelic lord and key figure of the Nine Years' War. Known as...
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  • Conn Bacagh O'Neill, 1st Earl of Tyrone (Irish: Conn Bacach mac Cuinn Ó Néill; c. 1480 – July 1559) was an Irish lord who ruled over Tyrone from 1519 to...
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    earldom of Tyrone was eventually granted in 1542. After nearly a decade of warfare with the English forces in Ireland, Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, surrendered...
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    Flight of the Earls (Irish: Imeacht na nIarlaí) took place in September 1607, when Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, and Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell...
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  • who primarily lived and served in Continental Europe. A son of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, Shane and his family left Ireland in 1607 due to hostility...
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    even during the lifetime of his father Conn O'Neill, 1st Earl of Tyrone (died 1559). But rejecting overtures from the 3rd Earl of Sussex, the lord deputy...
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  • seventeenth century. He was a son of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone. Conn was left behind during the Flight of the Earls. The English authorities planned...
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    control of Ireland. In 1585, Hugh was recognized as Earl of Tyrone. In 1593, Turlough surrendered to him the position of "The O'Neill" to the Earl and retired...
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  • Siobhán O'Donnell (category Year of birth missing)
    noblewoman of the O'Donnell clan. She was the second wife of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, bearing him most of his children. She was the daughter of Irish...
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  • followers of Turlough Luineach O'Neill. It is possible this conflict influenced her upbringing. Her father, Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, was the son of Feardorcha...
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  • Paul (ed.). The Will and Family of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone [with an Appendix of Genealogies] (PDF). Dublin: Sign of the Three Candles. Archived (PDF)...
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    lord Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, though he predeceased his father. His title was attainted in 1608.[citation needed] Hugh O'Neill was born c. 1585, specifically...
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    Kilmacrenan!" There was much fury in Ireland and England that he and Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, had been treated so gingerly after allegedly committing treason...
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  • Irish noble and the youngest son of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone. He joined his parents on the Flight of the Earls and was later found dead in Brussels...
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  • son of Gaelic lord Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, and his second wife Siobhán O'Donnell. He was descended from the O'Neill and O'Donnell clans of Tír Eoghain...
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    ambushed near Clontibret by a larger Gaelic Irish army led by Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone. The English column had been sent to relieve the besieged English...
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  • Catherine O'Neill, Countess of Tyrone (née Magennis; before 1574 – 15 March 1619) was an Irish aristocrat. She was the fourth and final wife of Hugh O'Neill, Earl...
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    Charles Patrick (1868). The fate and fortunes of Hugh O'Neill, earl of Tyrone, and Rory O'Donel, earl of Tyrconnel; their flight from Ireland, their vicissitudes...
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  • Hugh Dubh O'Neill, 5th Earl of Tyrone ("Black Hugh", meaning "black-haired" or "dark tempered") (1611–1660) was an Irish soldier of the 17th century....
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  • Bagenal, supported by Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone. Maguire's force was defeated, but the bulk of his army was unscathed. Hugh O'Neill would later join Maguire...
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    The leader of the rebellion, Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, wrote about Mountjoy's "refined manners" that he would lose a whole season of campaigning...
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    The King of Tyrone, Conn Bacagh O'Neill, in a personal capacity, carried the sword of state before his uncle Gerald Og FitzGerald, Earl of Kildare when...
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  • 1524), king of Clandeboye in medieval Ireland Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone (c. 1550–1616), Irish chieftain who resisted the annexation of Ireland by Elizabeth...
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  • Sir William Warren (died 1602) (category People of Elizabethan Ireland)
    soldier of the late sixteenth century. He is mainly remembered now for having facilitated the much-discussed marriage of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone and...
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  • Mabel Bagenal (category O'Neill dynasty)
    O'Neill, Countess of Tyrone (née Bagenal; c. 1571 – December 1595) was an Anglo-Irish noblewoman who was the third wife of prominent Irish lord Hugh O'Neill...
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  • Henry O'Hagan (category People of the Nine Years' War (Ireland))
    secretary who worked for Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, during the Nine Years' War. Charles Patrick Meehan described him as "O'Neill's faithful secretary"....
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  • Hugh (O'Neill) Earl of Tyrone ..." Cokayne 1910, p. 174–179. "Genealogies of the Earls of Antrim" Cokayne 1896, p. 448–470."Genealogies of the Earls of...
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  • Donnell Ballagh O'Cahan (category Flight of the Earls)
    in Ulster. A vassal of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, O'Cahan was frequently in rebellion alongside his lord in the closing years of the 16th century. Although...
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    Kilroy's play The O'Neill (1969), in which Kilroy uses Cecil to challenge the myth surrounding Gaelic Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, just after the latter's...
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  • powerful O'Neill clansman Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, married O'Donnell's daughter Siobhán. In 1587, O'Donnell's son (and tanist) Hugh Roe O'Donnell...
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