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The Flight of the Earls: escape or strategic regrouping?

The Flight of the Earls: escape or strategic regrouping?



John McGurk considers why the earls left Ireland.

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Galileo and Peter Lombard
Galileo and Peter Lombard

Ernan McMullin assesses the role played by Peter Lombard, the exiled archbishop of Armagh, in the condemnation of Galileo and the Copernican world-view

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Printing in the vernacular: the Louvain Project
Printing in the vernacular: the Louvain Project

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"Anocht is Uaigneach Éire"
"Anocht is Uaigneach Éire"

Tugann Breandán Ó Buachalla léargas cuimsitheach dúinn ar fhilíocht na himeachta.

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After the Flight: the Plantation of Ulster
After the Flight: the Plantation of Ulster

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San Pietro in Montorio, burial-place of the exiled Irish in Rome, 1608-1623
San Pietro in Montorio, burial-place of the exiled Irish in Rome, 1608-1623

Elizabeth FitzPatrick argues that San Pietro in Montorio, west of the Tiber on Gianicolo, can no longer be viewed simply as the burial-place of ‘the Earls’. It has a greater significance as the spiritual and political focus of the Irish community who found themselves unexpectedly confined to the city of Rome in 1608.

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Cuntas Thaidhg Uí Chianáin ar Thuras Deoraíochta na dTaoiseach Ultach, 1607–8
Cuntas Thaidhg Uí Chianáin ar Thuras Deoraíochta na dTaoiseach Ultach, 1607–8

San alt seo thíos caitheann Nollaig Ó Muraíle súil ar chomhthéacs, chúlra is eagráin ‘Imeachta’ Thaidhg Uí Chianáin.

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Tadhg Ó Cianáin’s account of the exile itinerary of the Ulster chiefs, 1607–8
Tadhg Ó Cianáin’s account of the exile itinerary of the Ulster chiefs, 1607–8

Nollaig Ó Muraíle examines the context, background and editions of Ó Cianáin’s ‘Flight’.

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Turas na nIarladh as Éire: international travel and national identity in Ó Cianáin’s narrative
Turas na nIarladh as Éire: international travel and national identity in Ó Cianáin’s narrative

Clare Carroll explores the emergence of nationhood as a key component of Thaidhg Uí Chianáin’s hitherto mistitled manuscript.

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