"Red" Hugh Roe O'Donnell (1571-1603) was an Irish Chieftain who led O'Donnell's Rebellion from 1593-1596 and later helped lead the Nine Years War, a revolt against English occupation, from 1593-1603. Events January 11 - Austrian nobility is granted Freedom of religion. ... Events March 24 - Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland, uniting the crowns of Scotland and England April 28 – Funeral of Elizabeth I of England in Westminster Abbey July 17 or July 19 - Sir Walter Raleigh arrested for treason. ... The Nine Years War in Ireland took place from 1594 to 1603. ...

Born to Irish Chieftain Hugh MacManus in 1571 he was kidnapped by Sir John Perrot, in an attempt to prevent an alliance between the O'Donnell and O'Neill Clans, and imprisoned in Dublin Castle in 1587. He escaped briefly in 1590 but was recaptured within the year. He finally managed to escape in January 1592 and upon his return gained the leadership of the Clan O'Donnell becoming Lord of Tyrconnel (Donegal) after his father abdicated in his favor later that year. Driving the Sheriff out of Tyrconnel he successfully led two expeditions against Turlough Luineach O'Neill in 1593. Declaring open rebellion against the English the following year O'Donnell's forces captured Connaught from Sligo to Leitrim by 1595. Allying with Chieftain Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyronne in 1596 the combined forces of O'Donnell and O'Neill defeated an English army under Sir Harvey Bagenal at the Battle of the Yellow Ford on the Blackwater River near the southern border of Tyrone in August 1598. Leading his army in a hard march during the winter of 1601, often covering over 40 miles a day, to join O'Neill and Spanish General Juan del Aquila at Kinsale arriving in early-December 1601. During the Battle of Kinsale on December 24, 1601 O'Donnell launched an attack to break the English siege but was defeated by Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy. After the Irish defeat at Kinsale he fled to Spain in an attempt to gain further assistance from the Spanish living in exile until his death, possibly of poison, in 1603. He was succeeded as chief of the Clan O'Donnell and Lord of Tyrconnel by his brother Rory O'Donnell. Dublin Castle in Dublin, Ireland was the seat of British rule in Ireland until 1922. ... For other uses, see Donegal (disambiguation) Donegal ( Irish: Dún na nGall) is a county in the northwest of Ireland. ... Donegal (Dún na nGall in Irish) is a town in County Donegal, Ireland. ... Connaught redirects here. ... Sligo is: In the Republic of Ireland: A County of Ireland: see County Sligo A Town of Ireland: see Sligo Town In the USA: A borough in Clarion County, Pennsylvania: see Sligo, Pennsylvania. ... Leitrim (Irish: Liatroim) is one of the counties in the west of Ireland and is part of the province Connacht. ... Hugh ONeill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone (c. ... Battle of the Yellow Ford - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... In geography, a blackwater river has water-colour ranging from clear tea to coffee. ... This article is about County Tyrone. ... Market Street in Kinsale, one of the towns oldest thoroughfares Kinsale (Cionn tSáile in Irish) is a town in County Cork, Ireland. ... Siege of Kinsale - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devon and 8th Baron Mountjoy (1563 - April 3, 1606) served as Lord Deputy and as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. ... The skull and crossbones symbol traditionally used to label a poisonous substance. ... Rory ODonnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell (1575–1608) 1602 Rory ODonnell succeeded his brother Hugh Roe O’Donnell, Lord of Tyrconnell, as the Irish chieftain of the clan ODonnell, At the time his brother was rebelling against King James I. 1603 he went to London to submit...

Further reading

Cyril Falls, Elizibeth's Irish Wars, London, 1950

External links

• The Hugh O'Donnell Guild - Working for the beutification of "Red Hugh" (http://valkyriepub.tripod.com/guild.htm)
• The O'Donnell Coat of Arms and Family History (http://www.araltas.com/features/odonnell/)