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Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone (Irish: Aodh Mór Ó Néill; literally Hugh the Great O'Neill; c. 1550 – 20 July 1616) was an Irish Gaelic lord and key figure of the Irish Nine Years' War. Known as the "Great Earl", [4] [5] O'Neill led the coalition of Irish clans against the English Crown in resistance to the Tudor conquest of Ireland under ...
- c. 1550
- 1587–1607
- Henry O'Neill
- Turlough Luineach O'Neill
Jul 20, 1998 · Hugh O’Neill, 2nd earl of Tyrone (born c. 1550—died July 20, 1616, Rome, Papal States [Italy]) was an Irish rebel who, from 1595 to 1603, led an unsuccessful Roman Catholic uprising against English rule in Ireland. The defeat of O’Neill and the conquest of his province of Ulster was the final step in the subjugation of Ireland by the English.
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Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone - Irish Biography. Alfred Webb. A Compendium of Irish Biography. 1878. O’Neill, Hugh, Earl of Tyrone, was born about 1540. He was the second son of Matthew, Baron of Dungannon, the reputed son of Con O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone. Hugh’s elder brother died in 1562.
O'Neill, Hugh ( c. 1550–1616), 2nd earl of Tyrone , the ‘Great O'Neill’, was second son of Joan Maguire and Matthew Feardorcha O'Neill (qv), who had been designated baron of Dungannon when Conn O'Neill (qv) arranged the surrender and regrant of Tyrone with the crown in 1542.
Mar 29, 2024 · Hugh O’Neill (born c. 1605, Spanish Netherlands—died c. 1660, Spain?) was an Irish general, nephew of the celebrated Owen Roe O’Neill. He was a major Irish commander against the English parliamentary forces of Oliver Cromwell.
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Jan 10, 2019 · Hugh O’Neill, the son of the murdered Lord, Fear Dorcha O’Neill, educated in the Pale and reinstated in Gaelic Ulster by the English, would cast a long shadow over the future of the province. His own story so dominates that of Ulster and of Ireland in the late 16 th century that it is worth looking at in detail.
Eleanor Hull. A History of Ireland and Her People. 1926-1931. Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone. It is curious to reflect that the two men who are accounted the greatest representatives of the race of the O’Neills— Hugh, Earl of Tyrone, and Owen Roe O’Neill —may neither of them have been members of the O’Neill family, but were possibly ...
