Tadhg O Cianain's diary of the flight


Accompanying Hugh O'Neill of Tyrone was a learned chronicler called Tadhg O Cianain, who kept an interesting daily record of their journey. He was poet and historian to the Maguires of Fermanagh.

Tadhg put his notes into narrative form in Rome in 1609. That diary of events has survived for almost 400 years, and is presently in the Franciscan House of Studies, Dublin.

It was first translated by Fr Paul Walsh in 1916, and a modern edition was published by Cardinal Tomas O Fiaich and Padraig de Barra in 1972.

The Ulster earls visited Pope Paul V in his summer residence at Quirinale Palace on the anniversary of his coronation, and attended the celebratory mass with him in St Peter's basilica.

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The Flight of the Earls: in Ómós do Thomás Ó Fíaich

The Flight of the Earls: in Ómós do Thomás Ó Fíaich


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