The O’Donnells of Tyrconnell: A Hidden Legacy

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As New Hardcover with dust jacket. The struggle of the O’Donnell’s to keep identity, faith and fortune is analogous to many other Irish families from the 16th to the 19th Century-with one exception: due to this work, it may be one of the best documented. This book shows the ancestral gallery of a once ruling Gaelic family and how they managed to survive. Seller Inventory # ABE-1684502171139.

Bibliographic Details
Title: The O’Donnells of Tyrconnell: A Hidden Legacy (Maunsel Irish Research Series)
Publisher: Academica Press
Publication Date: 2018
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
Dust Jacket Condition: New
Edition: 1st Edition

About this title
Synopsis:
Ambassador Francis Martin O’Donnell, retired UN representative and Knight and former Ambassador of the Sovereign Military Order of the Malta, explores the fascinating history of his forbearers in this comprehensive study. The Elizabethan conquest of Ireland in the early 1600s extinguished the rule of the O’Donnells of Tyrconnell (Tír Chonaill), leading to the plantation of Ulster. This is the first account of lost branches of their dynasty, descending from a largely forgotten scion, Donal Oge O’Donnell, only child of Sir Donal O’Donnell who was the eldest son and usurped heir of Sir Hugh Dubh Mac Manus, 23rd O’Donnell, King and Lord of Tyrconnell. Hugh Dubh ruled from 1567 to 1592 and married twice. His children by his first wife, Nuala, a daughter of O Neill, were eclipsed by the second, Maria or Iníon Dubh, née MacDonnell, who killed Sir Donal at Derrylaghan in 1590, thwarting his succession in favor of her own eldest son, Red Hugh, then in English captivity. Hugh Dubh died in 1600, and by 1601 both Red Hugh, who had escaped Dublin Castle, and his brothers Rory and Cathbharr and their nephew Donal Oge were engaged in the endgame of the Nine Years War. En route to Kinsale, Donal Oge undertook a side-expedition to Ardfert, spending several years in alliance with FitzMaurice, Lord of Kerry. Rory succeeded Red Hugh and became the first Earl of Tyrconnell in 1604, but they and many others were exiled to the Continent in 1607 in the Flight of the Earls. Donal Oge then joined Spanish forces in Flanders, where he died in 1620.Hugh Dubh and his family were the last undisputed dynasts to rule effectively. Stripped of power, the nominal local headship of the clan reverted later to the genealogically senior line of his brother Calbhach, some whose descendants won fame and fortune on the Continent as dukes in Spain and counts in Austria. History thus far obscured the survival of an older line of O’Donnell counts in France, who were known there as Chief of the Name and of the Arms. They became extinct in 1879, but their ostensible next-of-kin of/from Ardfert, trace origins in common back to a grandson of Donal Oge O’Donnell. His descendants, rebels in Ireland and Jacobites in France, later transitioned from military to civil service, at the highest echelons in the French Council of State. They epitomized the principle noblesse oblige, in their pursuit of enlightenment, compassion, and public service.Foreword: Dom Henry O’Shea, OSB, Glenstal Abbey, Heraldic and Genealogical Advisor to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in Ireland

About the Author:
Francis Martin O’Donnell is an Irish international diplomat who served abroad in senior representative positions with the United Nations until retirement, and later with the Sovereign Order of Malta. He is a life member of the Institute of International and European Affairs (under the patronage of the President of Ireland). He currently continues to serve pro bono as an advisor to the Global Partnerships Forum, founded by Amir Dossal, and is a listed endorser of the NGO consortium known as Nonviolent Peaceforce. He served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta to the Slovak Republic from December 2009 to March 2013. He previously served as a United Nations official for 32 years, most recently as the Resident Coordinator of the United Nations system in Ukraine, from 30 September 2004 until 31 March 2009, and previously in the same capacity in Serbia-Montenegro. In early 2012, he was appointed to the Council of the Order of Clans of Ireland (under the patronage of the President of Ireland), and was elected its Chancellor in May 2014. He also served on the Board of Directors, and completed both terms of office in April 2015. Since then, he has participated in Globsec, the InterAction Council, and is a regular participant, panelist and moderator in the annual Global Baku Forum.
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