Flight of the Earls
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The Flight of the Earls took place in September 1607, when Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, and Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, and about ninety followers, left Ulster in Ireland for mainland Europe. Their permanent exile was a watershed event in Irish history, symbolizing the end of the old Gaelic order.
The Ulster aristocrats set sail from Rathmullan, on the shore of Lough Swilly.
A bronze sculpture commemorating the Flight in Rathmullan, County Donegal
President of Ireland Mary McAleese arrives to unveil a statue depicting the Flight of the Earls at Rathmullan on 4 September 2007.
Siege of Kinsale
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The siege of Kinsale, also known as the battle of Kinsale, was the ultimate battle in England's conquest of Gaelic Ireland, commencing in October 1601, near the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, and at the climax of the Nine Years' War—a campaign by Hugh O'Neill, Hugh Roe O'Donnell and other Irish lords against English rule.
Siege and battle of Kinsale, 1601 from Pacata Hibernia, 1633
Spanish commander Juan Del Águila
Kinsale's port today