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O'Neill forced to play his trump card.
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.SO far, the background to the situation in Ireland by the early summer of 1607 has been commented upon. Paramount among the grievances of both the Old English catholics and Hugh O Neill was the Dublin government's attempts to coerce the leading catholics to adopt protestantism.
From the government point of view there was evidence of a conspiracy by some of the Old English and the Gaelic chiefs, with Spanish aid, to organise a rebellion. Hugh O Neill was suspected of being implicated in the plot, but while there was much suspicion, there was little evidence. The ...
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