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  Shane O'Neill - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Shane O'Neill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
O'Neill, however, refused to put himself in the power of Sussex without a guarantee for his safety; and his claims in other respects were so exacting, that Elizabeth consented to measures being taken to subdue him and to restore Brian.
Turlough had been elected tanist when his cousin Shane was inaugurated as The O'Neill, and he schemed to supplant him in the higher dignity during Shane's absence in London.
O'Neill ravaged the Pale, failed in an attempt on Dundalk, made a truce with the MacDonnells, and sought help from the Earl of Desmond.
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 SIR HENRY SIDNEY - LoveToKnow Article on SIR HENRY SIDNEY
In the course of the lord deputys Ulster expedition in 1557 Sidney devastated the island of Rathlin; and during the absence of Sussex in England in the following year Sidney was charged with the sole responsibility for the government of Ireland, which he conducted with marked ability and success.
A second absence of the lord deputy from Ireland, occasioned by the accession of Queen Elizabeth, threw the chief control into Sidneys hands at the outbreak of trouble with Shane ONeill, and he displayed great skill in temporizing with that redoubtable chieftain tifi Sussex reluctantly returned to his duties in August 1559.
With difficulty he persuaded Elizabeth to sanction vigorous measures against ONeill; and although the latter successfully avoided a decisive encounter, Sidney restored ONeills rival Calvagh ODonnell to his rights, and established an English garrison at Derry which did something to maintain order.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SI/SIDNEY_SIR_HENRY.htm   (828 words)

  
 O'Neill coat of arms
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.
This Phelim Baccagh, fourth son of Niall Mór, was the ancestor of the Lords O'Neill, of Shane's Castle, to whose branch of the family the estates of Edendubhcarrig devolved under British influence.
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The Tir Eogan / Eoghan / Eoghain (Tyrone) O'Neills
Domnall defeated the Mayor of Dublin in 1423 and was slain in a skirmish with the O'Cahans in 1432.
Hugh married 1st:a daughter of Sir Brian O'Neill, Captain or Lord of Clannaboy, was divorced and married 2nd: Joan, sister of Red Hugh O'Donnell and Ruari O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconell and daughter of Aedh, King of Tir Conaill.
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 Encyclopedia: 1595   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon (born 1535)
Turlough Luineach O'Neill, Irish chief of Tyrone (born 1530)
Luis Barahona de Soto, Spanish poet (born 1548)
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O'Neill, Shane (1530-1567) 2nd Earl of Tyrone (1)
O'Neill, Terence Marne (1914-1990) Baron O'Neill of the Maine, politician (1)
O'Neill, Sir Turlough Luineach (1530-1595) Knight Lord of Tyrone (1)
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 SuddenPen: Clanconnell, Turlough Luineach O'neill, Earl Of
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Making professions of loyalty to Elizabeth I of England, he sought to strengthen his position by alliance with the O'Donnells, MacDonnells, and MacQuillans.
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