Nick Maxwell The centre is housed in an old gun battery on Lough Swilly.Flight of the Earls/Rathmullan Heritage Centre Rathmullan, Co. Donegal www.rathmullanflightoftheearls.ie Mon.–Sat. 10am–1pm, 2–5pm; Sun. noon–4pm by Tony Canavan The Flight of the Earls Centre is housed in the evocative location of an old gun battery on Lough Swilly. The battery, a solid granite structure, … Read more
The Flight of the Earls BBC 1 & 2, Jan./Feb. 2007 (scheduled to be rebroadcast in September 2007, dates not yet available) BBC Northern Ireland Presented and produced by Antaíne Ó Donnaile by John Gibney A few years ago RTÉ commemorated the quatercentenary of the Battle of Kinsale with, shall we say, a somewhat thrifty … Read more
Making History is set in Ulster before and after the Battle of Kinsale and in Rome. The plot is centred on O’Neill’s relationships with those around him—with Peter Lombard, the archbishop of Armagh and his putative biographer; with Mabel Bagenal, his New English wife; with Red Hugh O’Donnell, his son-in-law and principal ally; and with … Read more
O’DONNELL, Nuala (c. 1575–c. 1630), refugee, was born in Tír Conaill, the daughter of Hugh O’Donnell, lord of Tyrconnell, and his second wife, Fionnuala (Iníon Dubh) MacDonnell of the Isles. Nuala was a sister of Red Hugh O’Donnell and two of the participants in the 1607 Flight of the Earls: Rory O’Donnell, first earl of … Read more
Thomas Ryan’s painting may be more familiar to readers now than it was a few years ago. This year, the 400th anniversary of the departure of the earl of Tyrone, Hugh O’Neill, and the earl of Tyrconnell, Rory O’Donnell, from Portnamurray, near Rathmullan, Co. Donegal, has witnessed a flurry of reproductions. For those in search … Read more