Red Hugh O’Donnell
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An Irishman abroad but not for much longer?
biographies, builders, Chapel of Marvels, Chieftains of Tyrconnell, Christopher Columbus, Curlew Pass, Darren McGettigan, Donegal, Earls of Tyrone, Franciscans, Hugh O’Neill, Ireland, Irish News, Kinsale, Leicester, love songs, missing feet, music, Nine Years’ War, October birthdays, parallels, Phillip III, rebellion, Red Hugh O’Donnell, Richard III, Richard Tyrrel, Simancas, Spain, Ulster, Valladolid, Yellow Ford“Red” Hugh O’Donnell (1572-1602) was an Irish chieftain who fought a series of battles against English armies between 1595 and the beginning of 1602 (during the Nine Years’ War which actually ran from 1593 to 1603), one of his less successful opponents being the Earl of Essex. O’Donnell ruled Tir Chonaill in the extreme north-west…
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The O’Donnells, the Four Masters and the Personnel of the Wars of the Roses
“Perkin”, Annals of the Four Masters, Bishop of Annaghtown, Earl of Kildare, Edward IV, Harleian Manuscript 433, Henry O’Neill, Henry VI, Henry VII, horses, Ireland, Isle of Man, James IV, Meath, Niall Garbh O’Donnell, O’Donnells, O’Neills, Peter Hammond, Red Hugh O’Donnell, Richard Duke of York, Rosemary Horrox, Spain, Thomas Lord StanleyIn the context of the current search for the remains of the Red Hugh O’Donnell who died in Spain in 1602, I thought that readers Murrey and Blue might be interested in a few vaguely Wars-of-the-Roses-related snippets from the O’Donnell history of the fifteenth century. In 1434 Red Hugh’s predecessor Niall Garbh O’Donnell was captured…
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