Word: tyrconnel
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...presented to the Welsh as a native prince "who could speak no English." Later he was styled "Prince of Wales," and the title has persisted. *The well-known "flight of the Earls," which took place in 1607, while James V was of Tyrone (Hugh O'Neill) and Tyrconnel the two most powerful men in Ireland, leaders of the resistance, fled Ireland with their wives, children and retainers, thus marking the doom of the Celtic cause...
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