Flight of the Earls

Name: Flight of the Earls
Start: 1607

Type Event Region Europe Time 1607

In September 1607, two northern Irish Catholic Gaelic nobles, Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, and Rory O'Donnell, Earl of Tyrconnell, left Ireland unde…

Timeline

1607Ulster · UlsterWith the Nine Years' War effectively lost and their territories and freedoms increasingly restricted, the two earls secretly planned to leave Ireland to avoid arrest or dispossession by the English authorities.
1607Rathmullan · UlsterThe earls and their party sailed from the Irish coast, making their way to Spain, Rome, and elsewhere, effectively ending the hereditary power of the Irish Gaelic nobility at home.

Sources

The Flight of the Earls — Irish Manuscripts Commission (2009)