march of O"Sullivan Beare

March of O"Sullivan Beare by Lucius J. Emerson Download PDF EPUB FB2

The long march of O’Sullivan Beare was a daring mission to flee invading English forces to seek refugee from Irish clans in the north of Ireland. The O’Sullivans had soldiers to protect women, children, and servants who faced certain death on this dangerous march.

Donal Cam O'Sullivan Beare, Prince of Beare, 1st Count of Berehaven (Irish: Domhnall Cam Ó Súileabháin Bhéara) (–), was the last independent ruler of the O'Sullivan Beara sept, and thus the last O'Sullivan Beare, a Gaelic princely title, on the Beara Peninsula in the southwest of Ireland during the early seventeenth century, when the English Crown was attempting to secure their.

I was thrilled to find it as well as amused; thinking the book might have been an "omen". I was totally astonished when the book arrived and I learned that the last prince of Ireland, Donal Cam O'Sullivan, was my 10th great grandfather.

Wow. I realize that the book is a historical novel, but the author is considered an expert on Irish history/5(15). O'Sullivan (Irish: Ó Súilleabháin), also known as simply Sullivan, is an Irish Gaelic clan based most prominently in what is today County Cork and County surname is associated with the southwestern part of Ireland and was originally found in County Tipperary before the Anglo-Norman is the third most numerous surname in march of OSullivan Beare book Kingdom of Desmond, Kingdom of Ireland.

O'Sullivan Beare Clan. likes 2 talking about this. A page for members of the O'Sullivan Beare Clan to share history and informationFollowers: This book examines the history and archaeology of the O'Sullivan Beare lordship in West Cork. The sept dominated this area for much of the late medieval period following the displacement of an Anglo-Norman presence in the upper end of Bantry Bay in the thirteenth by: 4.

O'Sullivan Beare, Philip, nephew of preceding, son of Dermot O'Sullivan, was born at his father's castle on Dursey Island, late in the 16th Februaryhe was sent to Spain, with some other youths, as hostages for the performance of agreements made between the King and the O'Sullivans.

It was also a centre for trade to and from the continent. In the aftermath of the Battle Of Kinsale Donal Cam O’Sullivan Beare’s followers retreated to Dunboy Castle, which was considered an impregnable stronghold. The 25″ historic Ordnance Survey map (upper picture) shows the location of the O’Sullivan Beare fortress, circled in red.

In January,the Nine Years War came to an end with the defeat of the Irish and Spanish by the English at Kinsale. This resulted in the Flight of the Earls (O'Neill and O'Donnell). One of the holdouts was the O'Sullivan Beare, Donal Cam, who in gathered his remaining followers, including women and children, and set off for the North, on a mile march which he and his people Author: Theofloinn.

Donal Cam O’Sullivan Beare was devastated by the loss and then destruction of Dunboy Castle, with the associated loss of most of the Beara peninsula to the troops of George Carew.

Though O’Sullivan Beare continued his guerrilla campaign, he was operating on borrowed time. Carew went back to the tried and true methods of crop stealing/burning in. O'Sullivan Beare, Donnell, Lord of Dunboy, in the County of Cork, was born about [The O'Sullivans originally occupied a territory in the present County of Tipperary.

Dispossessed by the Anglo-Normans, they moved south, and pressed out the weaker tribes in the vicinity of Bantry and Glengarriff.]. O’Sullivan Beare and Lorrha. O’Sullivan Beare March, Lorrha, The epic march undertaken by O'Sullivan Beare to Leitrim through the counties of Cork, Limerick, Tipperary, Galway, Roscommon, Sligo and, eventually, Leitrim arose as a result of the Irish and Spanish defeat at the Battle of Kinsale at the hands of the English.

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The Last Chieftain, the story of Donal O'Sullivan Beare. Visit our book store for your copy. O'Sullivan Clan. The origin of the name O’Sullivan. Michael O'Sullivan, Chieftain of O'Sullivan Clan Calling All Beara People and O’ Sullivans to Dunboy Grounds, Castletownbere on the 26th of July at pm.

O’Sullivan Beare, PHILIP, b. in Ireland, c. ; d. in Spain,son of Dermot O’Sullivan and nephew of Donal O’Sullivan Beare, Lord of was sent to Spain inand was educated at Compostella by Vendamma, a Spaniard, and Father Synnott, an.

The fate of history fell particularly hard on Donal Cam O Sullivan Beare ( - ) during the reign of Elizabeth. Headquartered at Dunboy (prounounced Dun-bwee) Castle, he "marched with O’Neill to an Irish battlefield" and stood with another Chieftain, Aodh Ruadh (Red Hugh) O’Donnell in Author: JC Sullivan.poppies: one for each British death in World War One The Beara-Breifne Way is Ireland’s longest national waymarked trail The route has been created by local communities in a unique collaboration.

It follows the legendary fourteen-day march taken by Dónal Cam O’Sullivan Beare and his one thousand supporters inand it visits many of the places and communities shaped by their story. Fionn Timmins, (10 yrs) on banjo, Rioghnach Timmins, (8 yrs) on Tin Whistle & Caoimhe Timmins, (12 yrs) on Fiddle at Cúl na Smear Hall.

Feb 2nd. That march is tangible today in the creation of the Beara-Breifne Way which commemorates and mostly mirrors the route of the march. The Way was the. Philip O'Sullivan Beare (c) Born in Ireland, c.

; died in Spain,son of Dermot O'Sullivan and nephew of Donal O'Sullivan Beare, Lord of Dunboy. He was sent to Spain inand was educated at Compostella by Vendamma, a Spaniard, and Father John Synnott, an Irish Jesuit.

This noble Sept was possessed of the ancient territory of Beara, comprising the modern Baronies of Beare and Bantry in the County of Cork, whence their Chiefs took their respective designations of the O'Sullivan Beare and the O'Sullivan Bantry; while another branch, styled O'Sullivan More (sic), lorded over Dunkerrin and part of Iveragh in the.Philip O'Sullivan Beare (Irish: Pilib Ó Súilleabháin Béirre, c.

– Spain, ) was an Irish soldier who became more famous as a writer. He fled to Habsburg Spain during the time of Tyrone's Rebellion, when Gaelic Ireland was making its last stand against Tudor subsequently authored the book, the Catholic History of Ireland, which offered a history from the perspective of.