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SHANE O'See also:NEILL ((. 1530–1567) was a chieftain whose support was See also:worth gaining by the See also:English even during his See also:father's See also:life-See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time; but rejecting overtures from the See also:earl of See also:Sussex, the See also:lord See also:deputy, Shane refused to help the English against the Scottish settlers on the See also:coast of See also:Antrim, allying himself instead with the MacDonnells, the most powerful of these immigrants. Nevertheless See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth, on succeeding to the English See also:throne, was disposed to come to terms with Shane, who after his father's See also:death was de facto See also:chief of the formidable O'Neill See also:clan. She accordingly agreed to recognize his claims to the chieftainship, thus throwing over See also:Brian O'Neill, son of the murdered See also:Matthew,
The ceremony of " inauguration " among the See also:ancient Irish clans was an elaborate and important one. A See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone inauguration See also:chair of the O'Neills is preserved in the See also:Belfast Museum. See Joyce, op, cit. i. 46.
See also:baron of See also:Dungannon, if Shane would submit to her authority and that of her deputy. O'Neill, however, refused to put himself in the See also:power of Sussex without a See also:guarantee for his safety; and his claims in other respects were so exacting. that Elizabeth consented to See also:measures being taken to subdue him and to restore Brian. An See also:attempt to foment the enmity of the O'Donnells against him was frustrated by Shane's See also:capture of See also:Calvagh O'Donnell, whom he kept a See also:close prisoner for nearly three years. Elizabeth, whose prudence and See also:parsimony were averse to so formidable an undertaking as the See also:complete subjugation of the powerful Irish chieftain, desired See also:peace with him at almost any See also:price; especially when the devastation of his territory by Sussex brought him no nearer to submission. Sussex, indignant at Shane's See also:request for his See also:sister's See also:hand in See also:marriage, and his demand for the withdrawal of the English See also:garrison from See also:Armagh, was not supported by the queen, who sent the earl of See also:Kildare to arrange terms with O'Neill. The latter, making some trifling concessions, consented to See also:present himself before Elizabeth. Accompanied by See also:Ormonde and Kildare he reached See also:London on the 4th of See also:January 1562. See also:Camden describes the wonder with which O'Neill's See also:wild gallowglasses were seen in the English See also:capital, with their heads See also:bare, their See also:long See also:hair falling over their shoulders and clipped See also:short in front above the eyes, and clothed in rough yellow shirts. Elizabeth was less concerned with the respective claims of Brian and Shane, the one resting on an English patent and the other on the See also:Celtic See also:custom, than with the question of policy involved in supporting or rejecting the demands of her proud suppliant. Characteristically, she temporized; but finding that O'Neill was in danger of becoming a See also:tool in the hands of See also:Spanish intriguers, she permitted him to return to See also:Ireland, recognizing him as " the O'Neill," and chieftain of See also:Tyrone; though a See also:reservation was made of the rights of See also:Hugh O'Neill, who had meantime succeeded his See also:brother Brian as baron of Dungannon, Brian having been murdered in See also:April 1562 by his kinsman Turlough Luineach O'Neill.
There were at this time three powerful contemporary members of the O'Neill See also:family in Ireland—Shane, Turlough and Hugh, and earl of Tyrone. Turlough had been elected tanist (see See also:TANISTRY) when his See also:cousin Shane was inaugurated the O'Neill, and he schemed to supplant him in the higher dignity during Shane's See also:absence in London. The See also:feud did not long survive Shane's return to Ireland, where he quickly re-established his authority, and in spite of Sussex renewed his turbulent tribal warfare against the O'Donnells and others. Elizabeth at last authorized Sussex to take the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field against Shane, but two several expeditions failed to accomplish anything except some depredation in O'Neill's See also:country. Sussex had tried in 1561 to procure Shane's assassination, and Shane now laid the whole blame for his lawless conduct on the lord deputy's repeated alleged attempts on his life. Force having ignominiously failed, Elizabeth consented to treat, and hostilities were stopped on terms that ga.ve O'Neill practically the whole of his demands. O'Neill now turned his hand against the MacDonnells, claiming that he was serving the queen of See also:England in harrying the Scots. He fought an indecisive See also:battle with Sorley Boy See also:MacDonnell near See also:Coleraine in 1564, and the following See also:year marched from Antrim through the mountains by Clogh to the neighbourhood of See also:Ballycastle, where he routed the MacDonnells and took Sorley Boy prisoner. This victory greatly strengthened Shane O'Neill's position, and See also:Sir See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Sidney, who became lord deputy in 1566, declared to the earl of See also:Leicester that See also:Lucifer himself was not more puffed up with See also:pride and ambition than O'Neill. Preparations were made in See also:earnest for his subjugation. O'Neill ravaged the See also:Pale, failed in an attempt on See also:Dundalk, made a truce with the MacDonnells, and sought help from the earl of See also:Desmond. The English, on the other hand, invaded See also:Donegal and restored O'Donnell. Failing in an attempt to arrange terms, and also in obtaining the help which he solicited from See also:France, O'Neill was utterly routed by the O'Donnells at See also:Letterkenny; and seeking safety in See also:flight, he threw himself on the See also:mercy of his enemies, the MacDonnells. Attended by a small See also:body of gallowglasses, and taking his prisoner Sorley Boy withhim, he presented himself among the MacDonnells near Cushen• dun, on the Antrim coast. Here, on the and of See also:June 1567, whether by premeditated treachery or in a sudden brawl is uncertain, he was slain by the MacDonnells, and was buried at Gienarm. In his private See also:character Shane O'Neill was a brutal, uneducated See also:savage. He divorced his first wife, a daughter of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James MacDonnell, and treated his second, a sister of Calvagh O'Donnell, with See also:gross See also:cruelty in revenge for her brother's hostility; Calvagh himself, when Shane's prisoner, he subjected to continual See also:torture; and Calvagh's wife, whom he made his See also:mistress, and by whom he had several See also:children, endured See also:ill-usage at the hands of her drunken captor, who is said to have married her in 1565.
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