Gleanings On O'Donnell History BY FR. CANICE MOONEY, O.F.~1. (1) Hugh O'Donnell, titular earl of lege of St. Anthony, where they were Tirconnel, 1608•42. placed under the jurisdiction of Father This Hugh O'Donnell was the son Aodh MacAingil, O..F.M., and their of Rory, the first earl, and of Bridget education continued. In October, 1621, Fitzgerald, his wife, who was daughter Hugh enrolled as a student at the of the earl of Kildare. He was less than University; a few years later we find • a year old at tlhe time of the flight of him in attendance at the court at the earls, and since his mother, partly Brussels; and before t~e end of 1625· for pe:·sonal reasons (she was ·<=xpect- he had entered on the military career in~ the birth of anotihe!' baby) . and which was to occupy him until his partly, perhaps, for diplomatic and pol- death in action sixteen years later. itical ·reasons (in an attempt to salvage King Philip IV of Spain and the some of the lands and rights forfeited An.:hduchess Isabela Clara at Brusseis by Rory's flight), did not follow rher continued towards him the benign favhusband i·nto exile, the baby remained our of their predecessors, by grants in charge of two Irish wetnurses. When and pensions, commissions in the army, the earls set out from Louvain on their and titles of honour. In January, 1632, journey to Rome in February, 1608, the he was mad;e Maestro de Campo of an infant was placed in charge of Anne Irish regiment like his friend and rival Madden, wife of Denis Kelly, who had John O'Neill, titular earl of Tyrone, replaced Sheila, wif.e of Hugh Gallagh- and the eyes of a11 patriotic exiles were er, as his nurse and fostermother. At turned towards those two :scions of the the request of the Archduke Albert, princely houses of O'Neiil and O'Dont~:e party was given quarters in the nell to lead them back some day to free convent of th.e Augustinian Canones- Ireiand once and for all from her an- ::2s, known .as The Wthite Ladies. Rory cient enemy. O'Donnell before departing had given t In order to ensure a lasting friendColonel Henry O'Neill and Fr. Donagh 'ship between them for the common Moo·:'l.ey, O.F.M., guardian of St. An- guod. Archbishop Florence Conry, thony's College, Louvain, a general O.F.M., had p::.-oposed a marriage be,.. right of :supervision ov€r his son. tween Sean and the famous Lady Mary In October, 1610, Hugh, with his Stuart O'Donnell, sister of Hugh, who three young companions, Sean and had been born in Irela.nd shortly after Brian O'Neill (sons of the earl of the flight of Rory, and who, allegedly, Tyrone by his third wife, Catherine to escape marrying a Protestant, had Magennnis) and a namesake (his own fled to Flanders from England about first cousin, t:he son of Cathbharr) March, 1626, disguised in man's clothwere remov·ed on the orders of the ing. Nothing came of the proposal, and Archduke to the Irish Franciscan Col- the eve of the rebellion of 1641 found 463.
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