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The Great O'Neill: Hugh O'Neill's Nine Years' War 1594-1603
In 1594, Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, launched a rebellion that would become the Nine Years' War — the most serious threat to English rule in Ireland since the Norman invasion. This episode traces O'Neill's extraordinary journey from a ward of the English Crown in London to a Gaelic warlord who nearly drove the English out of Ireland. We explore his military innovations: the combination of Spanish muskets and Irish pike formations that defeated English armies at the Battle of the Yellow Ford; his uneasy alliance with Red Hugh O'Donnell; the crushing defeat at Kinsale…
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