By Brian Igoe
By Brian Igoe
Six days after the death of Queen Elizabeth I of England, but before that news reached Ireland, O'Neill signed a peace treaty there, at Mellifont where he had been given shelter by the owner of the manor, Sir Garret Moore. The Treaty had been structured by Elizabeth, and under it he retained his lands and Earldom of Tyrone, but neither his dignity nor his respect. Forced as he was to kneel for an hour during the ceremony to show his shame and regret for his actions, he was an embittered man.
James VI of Scotland had now become James I of England as well. The Irish hoped that this would signify a change. Indeed, in matters of tactics in Ireland James was a great improvement, for as a Scot he well understood the Celtic mind. But as a King who believed fervently in his Divine right to rule, he was implacable. He was to preside over the end of all hope of freedom for Ireland for the foreseeable future.
That is the first paragraph of the chapter, which then goes on to look at Mary Queen of Scots, Sir Arthur Chichester. He was sworn in eight months later, and was to remain in office for over 10 years. He was a hard man from Devonshire, very much of the same breed as Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir George Carew, Hugh O'Neill, Rory O'Donnell, the Antrim Plantation, Sir Con O'Neill, Carrickfergus Castle, James Hamilton, Hugh Montgomery, Thomas Montgomery of Blackstone, Plantations of Ulster, The Flight of the Earls, the Chichester Proclamation, Rory O'Donnell, Hugh O'Neill, 'The Maguire', Gunpowder Plot in 1605, Sir Arthur Chichester, Treaty of Mellifont., Rathmullan, Lough Swilly, Fanad Peninsula, Earl of Tyrone, Earl of Tyrconnell, Derry, Cahir O'Doherty, Lord of Inishowen, Plantation of Derry, 'New England', Niall Garve O'Donnell, Donegal, Coleraine, Tyrone, Fermanagh, Armagh, 'Undertakers', Servitors, Twelve Livery Companies of the City of London, River Foyle, 'The Society of the Governor and Assistants of London of the New Plantation in Ulster within the Realm of Ireland', Londonderry, 'The Irish Society', Mathias Springham, George Smithes, Peter Benson, Donegal, Rory Dall O'Cahan, Irish Bards, 'O'Cahan's Lament', 'Danny Boy', or the Londonderry Air, 'Tabhair Dom do Lámh', or 'Give Me Your Hand', the Chieftains, the Wolf Tones, Dungannon, Coleraine, Belfast, walls of Derry, Little Scotland, Annals of the Four Masters, English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell, 'Lord Protector', the Irish Catholic Confederation, the Confederation of Kilkenny, 'the Rebellion of 1641', 'Rory O'More's Rebellion', Dublin Castle, Hugh McMahon, Conor Maguire, Sir Felim O'Neill, six Ulster Counties, Owen Roe O'Neill, Richard Butler, 3rd Viscount Mountgarret.
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