Rosa O'Neill

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Rosa O'Neill (née O'Doherty;

Stuart eras.[1]

Biography

Rosa was the daughter of

O'Doherty's Rebellion by burning Derry. Sir Cathaoir was defeated and killed at the Battle of Kilmacrennan, and Inishowen was confiscated from the family.[citation needed
]

Rosa had earlier been married to Cathbarr Ó Domhnaill (Cathbarr O'Donnell), the younger brother of both Aodh Ruadh Ó Domhnaill II (Red Hugh O'Donnell II) and Ruaidrí, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell. Both Cathbarr and Rosa accompanied his brother, Lord Tyrconnell, to Continental Europe during the 1607 Flight of the Earls. Her husband died of fever in Italy the following year, leaving Rosa a widow at the age of twenty.[2]

She remarried in 1613–14 to Owen Roe O'Neill, an Irish officer serving in the Spanish army who she met in Flanders.[3]

In 1642, when Owen Roe returned to Ireland to serve the

Ulster Army.[4] Owen Roe became a leading figure of the Irish Confederacy, enjoying mixed fortunes but winning a notable success against Scottish forces at the Battle of Benburb in 1646.[citation needed
]

Owen Roe O'Neill died at

St. Anthony of Padua in Louvain.[6]

Notes

  1. ^ Casway, Jerrold (2009). "O'Doherty, Rosa". Dictionary of Irish Biography.
  2. ^ Casway 1984, p. 25.
  3. ^ Casway 1984, pp. 25–26.
  4. ^ Casway 1984, p. 75.
  5. ^ Casway 1984, p. 262.
  6. ^ Casway 1984, pp. 267–268.

References

  • Casway, Jerrold (1984). Owen Roe O'Neill and the Struggle for Catholic Ireland. University of Pennsylvania Press.

Further reading

  • McCavitt, John (2002). The Flight of the Earls. Gill & MacMillan.


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