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	Sorley Boy Macdonnell - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sorley Boy's wife was an illegitimate half-sister of Shane O'Neill; but this did not deter him from leaguing himself with the government against the O'Neills, if by so doing he could obtain a formal recognition of his title to the lands of which he was in actual possession.
		Sorley Boy then went to Scotland to enlist support, and he spent the next few years in striving to frustrate the schemes of Sir Thomas Smith, and later of the earl of Essex, for colonizing Ulster with English settlers.
		Sorley Boy had several sons by his first marriage, one of whom, Randal, was created earl of Antrim (q.v.), and was ancestor of the present holder of that title.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sorley_Boy_Macdonnell (693 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Sorley Boy MacDonnell
		At the end of that century, an ancestor of Sorley's had married Margaret Bisset, heiress of the district on the Antrim coast known as the Glynns (or Glens), which union laid the basis for Sorley Boy's claim to the lordship of that territory in Ireland.
		Having made his submission, Sorley Boy at last obtained a grant to himself and his heirs of the greater part of the Route country, between the rivers Bann and Bush (an area then called the Boys), with certain other lands to the east, and was made constable of Dunluce Castle.
		Sorley Boy was twice married: to Mary, daughter of Con O'Neill, 1st Earl of Tyrone; and in 1588, when he was past the age of eighty years, to a daughter of Turlough Luineach O'Neill, a kinswoman of his first wife.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Sorley_Boy_MacDonnell (1965 words)

	Macdonnell - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The family were a branch of the clan Macdonald, but spelt their name Macdonnell or Macdonell.
		His father was John, 12th chief of Glengarry, a violent and brutal man, who is said to have starved his first wife, Alestair's mother, to death on an island in the Hebrides.
		Alestair ran away to France while a mere boy in 1738, and there entered the Royal Scots, a regiment in the French service.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Macdonnell (334 words)

	Sorley Boy MacDonnell
		Sorley Boy's wife was an illegitimate half-sister of Shane O'Neill; but this did not deter him from leaguing himself with the government against the O'Neills, if by so doing he could obtain a formal recognition of his title over the lands of which he was in actual possession.
		James soon afterwards died, but Sorley Boy remained O'Neill's captive till 1567, when Shane was murdered by the Macdonnells at Cushendun.
		Sorley Boy had several sons by his first marriage, one of whom, Randal, was created earl of Antrim[?], and was ancestor of the present holder of that title.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/so/Sorley_Boy_MacDonnell.html (623 words)

	Sorley Boy MacDonnell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		1505 - 1590), Scoto-Irish chieftain, was the son of Alexander MacDonnell, lord of Islay and Kintyre (Cantire), and Catherine, daughter of the Lord of Ardnamurchan.
		At this time Shane O'Neill was allied by marriage with the Campbells, the MacDonnell clan's chief rival in Scotland; yet Sorley Boy's wife was an illegitimate half-sister of the same Shane.
		In 1569, an alliance between the O'Neills and MacDonnells was secured upon the marriage on Rathlin Island of Shane's successor, Turlough Luineach O'Neill, to the widow Agnes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sorley_Boy_MacDonnell (1950 words)

	Ballycastle travel guide
		It was the headquarters of the Macdonnells in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
		Sorley has been rightly described as "the man to whose extraordinary vigour the success of the settlement of the Macdonnels in Antrim is mainly due".
		Macdonnell was known as "a singular promoter and patron of civility in the North of Ireland" and let out his lands to Scottish settlers many of whose descendants form a substantial element of the population to-day.
	www.world66.com /europe/unitedkingdom/northernireland/ballycastle (6179 words)

	Highways and Byways
		Sorley is, Anglicised, Charles, but in reality it is an old Gaelic name, and was borne by Sorley's ancestor Somhairle or Somerled, who defended his lands in Argyll so strongly against the Danes in the eighth century.
		What measure he dealt to Sorley Boy's women and children in Rathlin you shall read elsewhere, but the Macdonnell chief was no more to be cowed by this butchery than on the day when they showed him his son's head on the gate of Dublin castle.
		Macdonnell remained staunch and was rewarded in 1620 with the earldom of Antrim.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /ballycastle.antrim/byways/byways1.html (4970 words)

	Dunluce Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The castle often came under siege and in 1584 Sorley Boy MacDonnell(1505-1589) captured it when one of his men, employed in the castle, hauled his comrades up the cliff in a basket.
		Sorley Boy came into some booty (some of which can be seen in the Ulster Museum in Belfast) in 1588 when the Spanish Armada treasure ship Girona was wrecked by a storm off the Giant's Causeway, further along the coast.
		The castle as seen today dates largely from the 16th and 17th centuries' periods of construction by the MacDonnells, however the outer walls with round towers are attributed to the earlier work by the MacQuillans.
	www.ukheritage.net /castles/dunluce.htm (548 words)

	Information on Sorley Boy MacDonnell
		Shane O'Neill defeated Sorley Boy near Coleraine in 1564; in 1565 he invaded the Glynns and at Ballycastle won a decisive victory, in which James MacDonnell and Sorley Boy were taken prisoners.
		Within three months Sorley was back in Antrim and announced a desire to become a loyal servant of the Crown in return for his lands but there was no immediate response from the government, he re-took Dunluce in 1585 and from there continued his bargaining with the English government.
		Eventually in 1586, Sorley's negotiations with the English government led to him obtaining a grant to himself and his heirs of all the Route country between the rivers Bann and Bush, with other lands to the east, and he was made Constable of Dunluce Castle.
	northantrim.com /Sorleyboy.htm (732 words)

	Dunluce Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		After O'Neill's death and Sorley Boy's release in 1567, the castle became the MacDonnell stronghold, except for a short period in 1584 when the English, under Sir John Perrott, commanded it.
		Sorley Boy hatched an ingenious plan to regain it by getting one of his own men, who was employed in the castle, to haul some of the MacDonnells up the castle walls in a basket.
		Sorley Boy repaired the damaged castle with money he received from the wreck of the Spanish Armada ship, Girona, which sank off the Causeway in 1588.
	www.stormpages.com /i/irishtour/code/dunluce.html (239 words)

	Ballycastle
		In 1550 Alexander MacDonnell was established at Dunaneeny Castle, where, with Port Brittas at his feet, he commanded the key of the position, as he could bring galleys "go leor" from Cantire and the Isles to help him in his battles.
		Nine years after this the MacQuillins were defeated and almost exterminated in the Glenshesc Valley by Sorley Boy MacDonnell and his followers, and so it came about that by the end of the 16th century the MacDonnells were masters of the situation, and held the Route, the Glens, and Rathlin, with numerous castles.
		Sorley Boy was on his way home with several galleys full of Scots, but his followers, anticipating his arrival, attacked the English troops at Bun-na-mairgie at one o'clock in the morning, and set fire to the roof of the church, which was thatched.
	www.libraryireland.com /sketches/ballycastle.php (1794 words)

	Portrush
		Sorley Boy's brother Angus went off to the Highlands to collect forces, as they had been expecting trouble with the MacQuillins for some time previous.
		The MacDonnells, with this great addition to their forces, gave chase to the MacQuillins, but they did not stop till they came to the banks of a small river called the Orra, or Arra, the boundary between the parishes of Armoy and Loughgiel.
		The MacDonnells had now got a firm hold on Dunluce Castle, with the estates belonging thereto, whether by conquest or by marriage, for there was not a MacQuillin left to oppose those who had any claim to the property.
	www.libraryireland.com /sketches/dunluce.php (1067 words)

	MacDonnell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		James MacSorley MacDonnell, the son of Sorley Boy MacDonnell and Mary O’Neill (daughter of Conn O’Neill, and half sister to Shane O’Neill) was born sometime before 1570.
		The descendants of Sorley Boy MacDonnell of Antrim and James MacDonnell of Dunyveg had not forgotten the betrayal and humiliation of Glentasie where Shane had kidnapped and imprisoned Sorley Boy and James for years.
		James MacSorley MacDonnell died in 1601, and was succeeded by his bother Randal MacSorley MacDonnell, who became the first Earl of Antrim in 1620, and was married to Alice O’Neill, daughter of Hugh O’Neill.
	www.thearmyofoneill.org /Macdonnell.htm (708 words)

	SORLEY BOY MACDONNELL ... - Online Information article about SORLEY BOY MACDONNELL ...
		Sorley Boy was now too powerful and turbulentto be neglected by See also:
		Coleraine in the summer of 1564; in 1565 he invaded the Glynns, and at Ballycastle won a decisive victory, in which James Macdonnell and Sorley Boy were taken prisoners.
		Macdonnell's position was still further strengthened by an alliance with Turlough Luineach O'Neill, and by a formidable See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /LUP_MAL/MACDONNELL_SORLEY_BOY_c_1505_15.html (1043 words)

	The MacDonnells
		Sorley Boy was born in 1505 in Dunanyie fortress at what is now known as Castle Point.
		Sorley Boy's father Alexander MacDonnell, descendant of King John of the Isles, with his wife Catherine MacIan reigned over Dunyveg and the Antrim Glynns as Lord until he died peacefully in Dunanyie fortress.
		In 1586 the English settled their differences with Sorley Boy now aged eighty-one and so he lived in peace before dying four years later at Dunanyie finally being buried at Bonamargy Friary beside his brother James.
	www.ballycastle.free-online.co.uk /info/macdonnells.htm (659 words)

	Dunluce Castle
		The Annals of the Four Masters record that in 1513 the castle was taken by O'Donnell from the sons of Gerald MacQuillan and given to the sons of Walter MacQuillan.
		In 1544 Colla MacDonnell, a collateral ancestor of the subsequent Earls of Antrim, married the daughter of Edward MacQuillan, of Dunluce, and seems to have gradually established his power there, to the exclusion of the sons of Edward MacQuillan.
		In 1565 Shane O'Neill compelled the surrender of the castle by threatening to starve to death James and Sorley Boy MacDonnell, who were his prisoners.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /ballycastle.antrim/bits/dunluce.html (1965 words)

	Clan MacDonnell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Randal MacSorley MacDonnell, the head of this family, was created Earl of Antrim in 1620.
		Some MacDonnells of Ulster are, however, a distinct Gaelic Irish sept, belonging to Co. Fermanagh, but these would appear to be almost extinct now.
		Another quite distinct sept of MacDonnells are those of Thomond, who were, before the Gaelic way of life was disrupted by English invasion, bards to the O'Briens.
	www.electricscotland.com /webclans/scotsirish/macdonnell.htm (304 words)

	Dunluce Castle
		During the McDonnell ownership it was taken by Somhairle Buidhe (Sorley Boy) MacDonnell, whose brother had married the daughter of McQuillan.
		Besieged and badly damaged by Sir John Perrott, the Lord Deputy, in 1584, it was subsequently recaptured by Sorley Boy who, submitting to Queen Elizabeth in 1586, was made Constable of the Castle.
		Sorley Boy undertook new building at Dunluce, particularly the Italian-style loggia, prior to his death in 1589.
	www.ehsni.gov.uk /places/monuments/dunluce.shtml (546 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Dunluce Castle, Northern Ireland at Epinions.com
		Sorley Boy MacDonnell, enemy of the English and Scottish rulers took over the castle towards the end of his life.
		MacDonnell was a Scot, forced from his original lands by the Scottish King.
		Despite the turbulent atmosphere, the wife of the MacDonnell leader was a sophisticated Londoner by birth.
	www.epinions.com /content_261875666564 (1025 words)

	Northern Ireland - The Castles of Antrim
		The battling MacDonnells ruled all this north-eastern corner of Ulster in the, late 16th century.
		In 1584 Sorley Boy MacDonnell captured it from the English when one of his men, employed in the castle, hauled his comrades up the cliff in a basket.
		Sorley Boy came into some money in 1588 when the Spanish Armada treasure ship Girona was wrecked by storm off the Giant's Causeway.
	www.geographia.com /northern-ireland/ukiant03.htm (452 words)

	Shane O'Neill
		O'Neill now turned his hand against the MacDonnells, claiming that he was serving the queen of England in harrying the Scots.
		He fought an indecisive battle with Sorley Boy MacDonnell near Coleraine in 1564, and the following year marched from Antrim through the mountains by Clogh to the neighbourhood of Ballycastle, where he routed the MacDonnells and took Sorley Boy prisoner.
		Attended by a small body of gallowglasses, and taking his prisoner Sorley Boy with him, he presented himself among the MacDonnells near Cushen-dun, on the Antrim coast.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/s/sh/shane_o_neill.html (788 words)

	Dunluce Castle, Ireland. Travel guide & tourist information by Hostelbookers.com
		But as soon as Perrott departed, leaving a garrison in charge, Sorley Boy hauled his men up the cliff in baskets and recaptured the castle, later repairing the damage with the proceeds of the salvaged wreckage of the Girona and arming the fort with three of its cannons.
		Having made his point, Sorley Boy agreed a peace with the English, and his son, Randal, was created Viscount Dunluce and Earl of Antrim by James I. In 1639, Dunluce Castle paid the penalty for its precarious, if impregnable, position when the kitchen fell off the cliff during a storm, complete with cooks and dinner.
		The MacDonnells' Scottish connections – Sorley Boy's son continued to own land in Kintyre – are evident in the gatehouse's turrets and crow-step gables and the tapering chimneys of the seventeenth-century Great Hall.
	www.hostelbookers.com /guides/ireland/dunluce_castle (339 words)

	Additional Note on the Irish Story Article - ScotWars
		When Sorley Boy was threatened by the Lord Deputy Sir John Perrot, Turlough brought his forces and his other ally Brian Carragh O'Neill of Loughinsholin to Sorley Boy's defence.
		Turlough was the given name of both the O'Cahan chieftain (although not Chief) from eastern O'Cahan territory on the River Bann, allied to the MacDonnells, and of a harper, O'Carolan, from the western regions of O'Cahan's territories, then County Coleraine.
		Of Dunseverick Castle, Camden says that "it was given to Sorley Boy [MacDonnell of Antrim] about the year 1570, after which it became the residence of O'Cahan, an Irish chief from the bank of the River Bann, from whom the County of Coleraine was called O'Cahan's country.
	www.scotwars.com /html/maccolla_additional_note.htm (698 words)

	Shane O'Neill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although Shane had allied himself with the Scottish MacDonnell clan, who had settled in Antrim, against the English, Queen Elizabeth, on succeeding to the English throne in 1558, inclined to come to terms with Shane, who after his father's death functioned as de facto chief of the formidable O'Neill clan.
		He fought an indecisive battle with Sorley Boy MacDonnell near Coleraine in 1564, and the following year marched from Antrim through the mountains by Clogh to the neighbourhood of Ballycastle, where he routed the MacDonnells at the Battle of Glentasie and took Sorley Boy prisoner.
		The MacDonnells, hoping to ingratiate themselves with the English, who wanted to expel their clan from Ireland, sent O'Neill's severed head to their government in Dublin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shane_O'Neill (1498 words)

	Dunluce Castle , County Antrim - Reviews of Dunluce Castle - IgoUgo
		Sorley evaded arrest and recaptured the castle when one of his men, employed as a member of castle staff, hauled his comrades up the cliff in a basket.
		Not wishing the same to happen again, Sorley strengthened the castleâ€™s defence by mounting four cannons salvaged from the Girona, a Galleass of the Spanish Armada, which foundered off the Giant's Causeway in 1588.
		Negotiating from a position of strength, Sorley Boy agreed to a peace with the English.
	www.igougo.com /travelcontent/JournalEntryActivity.aspx?EntryID=14165 (623 words)

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		Sorley Boy MacDonnell - Somhairle Buidh Mac Domhnaill ("Charles of the Yellow Hair, son of Donnell") anglicised Sorley Boy MacDonnell (in Scotland, MacDonald) (c.
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