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The Flight of the Earls: The Fall of Gaelic Ireland and the Making of a Lost World

The Flight of the Earls: The Fall of Gaelic Ireland and the Making of a Lost World

Cianáin, Adhamh Sean Ó.

Paperback

Irish History

ISBN13: 9798235349001
Publisher: Silverback Books
Published: Jul 14 2026
Pages: 314
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The Flight of the Earls: The Fall of Gaelic Ireland and the Making of a Lost World

In September 1607, a French ship slipped out of Lough Swilly carrying Ulster's last Gaelic earls into permanent exile, and Gaelic Ireland's independent political order died with them. The Flight of the Earls traces this collapse from its roots in Tudor administrative conquest through the Nine Years' War's brutal triumphs and catastrophic defeat at Kinsale, into the quiet legal revolution that dismantled Gaelic law, land tenure, and succession under the guise of a generous peace. At its heart lies a story of engineered ruin: a vassal's broken marriage, a stage-managed courtroom, a baron's calculated betrayal, and two earls who came to understand, with chilling clarity, that their dispossession had been scripted in advance. What follows is an odyssey of extraordinary human drama, a desperate ride across Ulster in the dead of night, a countess abandoned mid-pregnancy who charms a king, a daughter's escape from London disguised as a man, and a trans-European pilgrimage through storm, mountain, and plague to a modest grave in Rome. Drawing on firsthand diaries and contemporary state papers, this is narrative history at its most immersive, a sweeping, meticulously researched account of the moment an ancient civilization was extinguished, and of the individual men, women, and children who carried its memory into exile.

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