O'Neill, Owen Roe

O'Neill, Owen Roe

▪ Irish rebel commander
born c. 1590
died Nov. 6, 1649

      Irish rebel commander during a major Roman Catholic revolt (1641–52) against English rule in Ireland. His victory at Benburb, Ulster, on June 5, 1646, was one of the few significant rebel triumphs of the war.

      A nephew of the renowned Irish chieftain Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone (d. 1616), Owen Roe served with distinction for about 30 years in the Spanish army before returning to Ireland in late July 1642, nine months after the outbreak of the insurrection. He immediately replaced Sir Phelim O'Neill as commander in the north, but he soon came into conflict with the other leaders of the Catholic confederacy. O'Neill advocated the independence of Ireland from England though retaining nominal loyalty to the English sovereign, whereas his colleagues favoured a settlement providing for religious liberty and an Irish constitution under the English crown. After routing the army of England's Scottish ally, General Hector Munro, at Benburb, O'Neill helped the papal nuncio, Giovanni Battista Rinuccini, force the confederacy to rescind a peace that it had concluded with the English. Nevertheless, O'Neill and the other members of the Roman Catholic faction eventually had to ally with the English Anglican Royalists against the English Independent Parliamentarians.

      He died three months after the Parliamentarian general Oliver Cromwell arrived in Ireland. By 1652 Cromwell's commanders had completely subjugated the country.

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