Shifting loyalties spark revolt
Historian Jonathan Bardon begins a four-page account of a journey with consequences for our relations with England and Europe to this day. As the story begins, England was close to losing its grip on Ireland. Its territory had contracted, reduced to coastal towns and the area around Dublin known as the Pale. The Reformation in the 16th century had changed everything. Philip 11 of Spain appointed himself standard bearer of the Counter Reformation with the object of crushing the Protestant English and Dutch. As the English thrust deep into their territories, the Catholic Gaelic lords of Ulster turned to Hugh O'Neill, the Earl of Tyrone, to lead them.
Kinsale was Gaelic Ireland's Culloden
March 1603: The Treaty of Mellifont-
Beggaring the earls
1605: Cry treason -
Treason rumours precede flight
1604-1607: Plotting with Spain -
Hardship on the high seas
Sept 1607-April 1608: The Journay -
Ireland c1600: Babtista Boazio's map of Ireland
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To the King of Spain: Your Lordship's request
April 1607-2007: The Louvain Link -
Plantation of Ulster begins
1608-9: Spain turns a deaf ear -
Hope dies in Rome
1609-1616: Death in Rome. -
King ponders plantation
April 1608: The revolt of Sir Cahir O'Doherty -
Learning abroad
April 1607-2007: The Louvain Link
