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Article: O'Neill forced to play his trump card.
- Article from:
- Tyrone Times (Dungannon, Northern Ireland)
- Article date:
- September 25, 2007
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.SO far, the background to the situation in Ireland by the early summer of 1607 has been commented upon. Paramount among the grievances of both the Old English catholics and Hugh O Neill was the Dublin government's attempts to coerce the leading catholics to adopt protestantism.
From the government point of view there was evidence of a conspiracy by some of the Old English and the Gaelic chiefs, with Spanish aid, to organise a rebellion. Hugh O Neill was suspected of being implicated in the plot, but while there was much suspicion, there was little evidence. The government, of course, had other ammunition in its locker with which to pepper and harass O Neill.
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