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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Owen Roe O'Neill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Because of his military experience, O'Neill was recognised on his return to Ireland, at Doe Castle in Donegal (end of July 1642), as the leading representative of the O'Neills and head of the Ulster Irish.
This time O'Neill was alone among the Irish generals in rejecting the peace deal and found himself isolated by the departure of the papal nuncio from Ireland in February 1649.
O'Neill's Ulster army was unable to prevent the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, despite a successful defence of Clonmel by Owen Roe's nephew Hugh Dubh O'Neill and was destroyed at the battle of Scarrifholis in Donegal in 1650.
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  O'Neill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The progenitor of the dynasty was Niall of the Nine Hostages (Niall Noigiallach), said to be High King and died c.
The O'Neill was the traditional title of the head of this family, and during early English rule the holder of this title was considered by many to be the rightful High King of Ireland.
The current head of the dynasty is Hugo O'Neill, son of Jorge, whose family has been in Portugal since the eighteenth century.
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 felim o'neill of kinard - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
A member of the famous O'Neill family, Sir Felim was the grandson of Sir Henry Oge O'Neill, one of the O'Neills who remained in Ulster after the Flight of the Earls despite the difficulties bought on by land confiscation and the Plantation of Ulster.
O'Neill's family were from a minor branch of the O'Neill clan and had risen to prominence by siding with the English against the chief, Hugh O'Neill in the Nine Years War.
O'Neill was a member of the Irish Parliament in the 1630s and trained as a lawyer at Kings Inns in London.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Irish Rebellion of 1641   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
One result of this was the destruction of formerly powerful Irish clans such as the O'Neills and the O'Donnells culminating in an event known as the Flight of the Earls in 1607.
O’Neill meanwhile successfully took several forts in the north of the country, claiming to be acting in the King’s name.
Phelim O’Neill and the other insurgent leaders initially tried to stop the attacking of Protestants, but were unable to control the local peasantry - motivated by sectarian and ethnic hatred and by resentment of decades of social and economic subordination to the settlers.
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 The Ancient and Royal Family of O'Neill. Copyright (C) 1996, Desmond O'Neill. All Rights Reserved.
Domhnall "of Armagh" to Aodh or Hugh "An Macaomh Toinleasc" O'Neill.
Aodh or Hugh O'Neill "An Macaomh Toinleasc" to Aodh Buidhe I ancestor of the Clanaboy O'Neills.
Conn O'Neill, traditionally held to be the son of Muircheartagh Muighe Line O'Neill the brother of Aodh "An Macaomh Toinleasc" and the ancestor of the O'Neills of Ballyneill, Co. Tipperary.
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 O Neill the most illustrious among the surnames of Ireland
Fedhlimidh (Felim) Rachtmar: his son; was so called as being a maker of excellent wholesome laws, among which he established with all firmness that of "Retaliation;" kept to it inviolably; and by that means preserved the people in peace, quiet, plenty, and security during his time.
From this Monarch the sirname O'Neill or "Clan-na-Neil," Neilson, Nelson and Nilson are derived.
Owen: son of Neil Oge; was, in 1432, on the death of Donal Bocc, inaugurated The O'Neill; married Catherine (died 1427), daughter of Ardgal MacMahon.
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 O'Neill coat of arms
This Henry "was inaugurated The O'Neill, in 1455, by the coarb of St. Patric, together with Maguire, MacMahon, O'Cahan, and all the O'Neills, at Tullaghoge, according to the usual customs." Issue: I. Conn; II.
In A.D. the English passed an Act of Attainder against the "late John O'Neill;" and all his extensive estates, nearly all the Tribe Lands of the Sept, together with the greater part of Tyr-Owen, were seized by the English Crown, and various parts thereof planted with English and Scotch settlers.
Feardorach (or Mathew), son of Conn Bacchach, and half brother of Shane, was, by the English, made "Baron of Dungannon;" he married Judith, daughter of Cuchonnacht Magennis, and had by her: I. Brian, the second "Baron of Dungannon," who was slain, s.
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 Felim O'Neill of Kinard - Wiki Ireland
In particular, they were aggrieved at Catholics' exclusion from Public Office and the continual confiscations of Catholic owned land.
In this atmosphere of fear and paranoia, Phelim O'Neill became involved in a plot hatched by fellow Gaelic Irish Catholics from Ulster, to seize Dublin and swiftly take over the other important towns of Ireland.
In 1648, he voted for such a deal, The Second Ormonde Peace, splitting with Owen Roe O'Neill, who opposed it and most of the Ulster army.
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