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Píobaire, An, Volume 4, Issue 44, Page 12

Píobaire, An, Volume 4, Issue 44, Page 12
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Na Píobairí Uilleann
periodical Editor
Chairman, NPU
periodical Title
Píobaire, An
volume Number
4
issue Content
12~ Flight of the Earls ~The Flight of the Earls in 1607 was awatershed event in Irish history. Itssignificance has been reflected in thenumber and range of events organised tomark the 400th anniversary, not least in thefield of traditional music, several of particularinterest to pipers.The Earls’ departure from Ireland in 1607was, at the time, a tactical move, an attempt tosecure assistance for their cause. Their failureto achieve their aim of enlisting enough helpto support a return to Ireland and a resump-tion of the resistance to Elizabeth’s imperial-ist policies, opened the way, two years later,for the plantation of Ulster, when nearly 7,600square miles in the north of the country –almost a quarter of the land area of Ireland –was confiscated and allocated to English andScottish settlers. Antaine Ó Donnaile, the producer of the BBCdocumentary series on these events, describedthe effect as follows:Departure of O'Neill out of Ireland – Thomas Ryan RHA
issue Number
44
page Number
12
periodical Author
[Periodical]
issue Publication Date
2008-05-21T11:44:38.503
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Píobaire, An, Volume 4, Issue 44

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