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O'Neill, Hugh
O'Neill, Hugh (c.1550–1616), 2nd earl of Tyrone and last inaugurated O'Neill. Hugh was raised in the Pale after the assassination of his father Matthew in 1558. The crown re‐established him in Ulster ten years later as a bulwark against the pretensions of Turlough O'Neill. When it tried to curb his growing power after 1587, Hugh resorted to bribing officials and opened up contacts with Spain. Fitzwilliam's partition of Monaghan proved the decisive break. O'Neill tried to entangle the main beneficiary of government reform, Sir Henry Bagenal, in a marriage alliance by eloping with his sister Mabel. In 1592 Red Hugh O'Donnell, his son‐in‐law, assisted him in the encirclement of Turlough and the achievement of supremacy in Ulster.
At the start of the Nine Years War O'Neill managed an outward show of loyalty while using proxies to oppose militarily the implementation of further reform. Victory at the Yellow Ford in 1598 enabled the extension of his authority through the midlands and into Munster. A major stumbling block was the Old English, to whom O'Neill appealed unsuccessfully on the grounds of common nationality and religion. O'Neill and O'Donnell were defeated at Kinsale and he himself surrendered at Mellifont in 1603. The subsequent Flight of the Earls was a gamble by O'Neill which went badly wrong. He died in Rome in 1616. That Hugh O'Neill enjoys such an enigmatic reputation is largely the result of 19th‐century misinterpretation. Uncritical use of Ó Cléirigh's life of O'Donnell, and the mistaken idea that O'Neill was brought up in England, fashioned a vacillating figure caught between two cultures. In fact O'Neill was an adept politician and gifted soldier who made the most of limited resources in a period of rapid change. Bibliography Morgan, Hiram , Tyrone's Rebellion (1993) Hiram Morgan |
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"O'Neill, Hugh." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "O'Neill, Hugh." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O245-ONeillHugh.html "O'Neill, Hugh." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O245-ONeillHugh.html |
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Tyrone, Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of
Tyrone, Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of (1540–1616) Ulster chieftain. Tyrone received his earldom from ELIZABETH I of England in 1585. He established himself as the most powerful chief in Ulster and with the support of other Catholic chiefs rebelled against Elizabeth and her religious policies in 1594. After a famous victory at the Yellow Ford (1598), the initiative slipped to the English, under Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy. Spanish support for the rebels at Kinsale (1601) proved inadequate and in 1603 Tyrone surrendered. In 1607, after another abortive insurrection the earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnel and their households, fled to Flanders in the celebrated “flight of the earls”, and Tyrone died in Rome.
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"Tyrone, Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of." A Dictionary of World History. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Tyrone, Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of." A Dictionary of World History. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O48-TyroneHughONeill2ndEarlof.html "Tyrone, Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of." A Dictionary of World History. 2000. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O48-TyroneHughONeill2ndEarlof.html |
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Hugh O'Neill
Hugh O'Neill see Tyrone, Hugh O'Neill, 2d earl of . |
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"Hugh O'Neill." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Hugh O'Neill." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-X-ONeill-H.html "Hugh O'Neill." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-X-ONeill-H.html |
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