Why it matters 400 years later

Fintan O’Toole on how the legend became more important than the event

The Flight of the Earls painting by Thomas Ryan RHA which is on display in Dublin Castle

The making of Hugh O'Neill
The Flight - as it happened
Tudor England and unruly Ireland
Snapshots, references and credits

  • Snapshots in Time/Shane Hegarty

  • References

  • This supplement was written by Jonathan Bardon, author of A History of Ulster; Shane Hegarty, Irish Times journalist and co-author of The Irish Times Book of the 1916 Rising; author and journalist Joe Carroll and Irish Times columnist and author Fintan O'Toole; Supplement edited by Kieran Fagan.
  • In association with the Deparment of Arts, Sport and Tourism and the Departmen of the Taoiseach
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