GLEA:NINGS ON O'DONNELL HISTORY wise counsel:ors of the king of Spain 1 da bhrigh sin do iarr a ched le congadvising that both of these men should na.mh dfaghail, no gan a fhaghail, agus not be sent to Ireland together, as a Jeigen da dhuthaigh. Agus as amhtneir mutual jealousy might wreck the laigh do-conncas don righ agus da undertaking. Fate took a hand in the chomhairle gan a Jeigen go hEirinn game and neither one nor the other acht a chur ar cogadh na fairrge do but a greate::.· tihan both, the dauntless chathughadh re Frangcachaibh.' Eoghan Rua O'Neill, was "destined to English translation : b~come the leader of the Ulster army A.D. 1642. O'Donnell, who was of the Confederation. John died in caUed Earl of Til"connel, that is, Hugh Catalonia in Spain, 27th January, 1641, .son of Rory son of Hug1h son of Manus and Hugh was kiHed in action in the O'DonneU, was drowned in the sumsumme::.· of the following year during a mer of this year in the sea called the naval engagement against the French Mediterranean Sea helping the king in the Mediterranean. of Spain in the w.ar that occurred beFo:::- three centuries the O'Clerys tween himself and ·the king of France, had prov·ed thems.e!ves faithful and etc. It was in the month of October of efficient chroniclers to the O'Donnells. the previous year, namely in 1641, that ~en the sad news of the death of the O~d Irish and the Old English of Hugih reached St. Anthony's, Louvain, Ireland in general began an insurrectBrothcr Michael O'Clery, O.F.M., ion and war· against the heretics in lamenting the death of his hereditary Irf.land to free themselves from every clhieftain, sat down and penned his disability under which they' laboured. obituary notice on one of his manu- When the Earl O'Donnell, whom scripts, which is now preserved in the we have mentioned, heard about this Royal Library at Brussels. As far as I insurrection and war in Ireland, he am aware, this is the first occasion on went to the king of Spain and referred which it has been published. to his own service and the death of 'Aois Criost, 1642. 0 Domhnaill da O'Neil! before that and the many obligngoirthi Iarla Thire Chonaill, i. · Aodh ations under which the king of Spain M.ac Rudhraighe mhic Aodha mhic was to help the frish. For those reasMaghnasa 1 Domhnaill do bhadhadh ons, he besought his permission to sea Samhradh na bliadhn.a so ar an muir cure aid and return to his country, or da ngoirther Mari Mediterraneo ag e-ven to go without aid. But the king cuidiuighadih le: Ri na Spainne isin cco.g- and his council decided not to let him. adh tarl.a idir e fein agus RiF,rangc, 7c. go to Ireland, but ·sent him to war at A mf October na bliadhna roimh an sea to fight against the French.' bliadhain si mar ata 1641, do thionns- Reading between the lines, one gainsiod seruGhaoidhil agus senGhoill can discern Brother Michael O'Clery's Eireann d'urmh6r coimheirghe chog- enthusiastic support fo.r the rising of aidh in aghaidh na n-eitricedh in 1641, his joy at the union of Old Irish Erinn, da saoradh 6 gach broid da and Old English in the common cause, raibhe orra. a slight r~gret that not an O'Donnell Mar do-chualaidh an t-i.arla 0 but an O'Neill would now lead the Domhnaill adubhramur an coimheirghe forces of his native province, and' a cogaidh sin do bheith in Erinn do- hint of the old native pride in his way ·chuaidh do lathair rfgh na Spainne agus of saying that O'Donnell was helping do mhaoidh a shei1·bhis fein agus bas 1 the king of .Spain and not merely servNeill roimhe sin air agus gach obliog- ing under him. Notable too is the ready aid da raibhe ar righ na Sp.ainne fa acceptance of the English title of earl chuidiughadh le hEireannchoibh, agus ·side by side with refe:::ice to 6 Domh4H4.
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