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Sunday, 09 October 2011 11:33
The McShane Surname of Co.s Armagh and Tyrone
Hello Everybody. As a piece of market research I recently sent an e mail to all the subscribers to my newsletter, asking for ideas on my website and genealogical research in general.
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Genealogy
Thursday, 26 May 2011 16:04
The Sixteenth Century Irish Genealogical Controversy which led to murder and war ~ Ferdoragh and Shane O'Neill
Conn Bacach O'Neill, the lord of Tyrone from 1519 until his death in 1559, was a powerful Gaelic Irish chieftain who re-established the primacy of the O'Neill family in Gaelic Ulster and was created first earl of Tyrone by the English king, Henry VIII, in 1542. In his obituary in the Annals of the Four Masters, Conn Bacach O'Neill was stated to have 'spent his age and time without blemish or reproach'.
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