Henry O'Hagan (Irish: Enri Ó hAgáin;[1] fl. 1599 – 1616) was an Irish secretary who worked for Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, during the Nine Years' War.[2][3] Charles Patrick Meehan described him as "O'Neill's faithful secretary".[4]
Life
editThe O'Hagan family fostered Hugh O'Neill in his youth.[5][6]
Henry O'Hagan organised the famous riverside parley between O'Neill and Lord Deputy Essex in 1599.[7][8]
O'Hagan took part in the Flight of the Earls in September 1607, leaving Ireland for mainland Europe.[1]
After O'Neill's death on 20 July 1616,[9] Henry O'Hagan settled disputes over his will.[3]
According to the registry of San Pietro in Montorio, the Earl's secretary died in 1610 and was buried there. Meehan believed that this refers to O'Hagan, but it actually refers to the Tyrone's other secretary, Henry Hovenden.[10][4]
References
editCitations
edit- ^ a b Hegarty, Roddy. Imeacht Na nIarlí: The Flight of the Earls: 1607 - 2007 (PDF).
- ^ Meehan 1868, pp. 6, 14.
- ^ a b Casway 2003, p. 63.
- ^ a b Meehan 1868, p. 464.
- ^ Morgan 1993, p. 96.
- ^ Canny 2022, p. 40.
- ^ Meehan 1868, p. 14.
- ^ Brewer & Bullen 1869, pp. 323–324.
- ^ Morgan, Hiram (September 2014). "O'Neill, Hugh". Dictionary of Irish Biography. doi:10.3318/dib.006962.v1. Archived from the original on 26 September 2023. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
- ^ FitzPatrick, Elizabeth (August 2007). "San Pietro in Montorio, burial-place of the exiled Irish in Rome, 1608-1623". History Ireland. 15 (4). Archived from the original on 1 March 2024.
Sources
edit- Brewer, J. S.; Bullen, W., eds. (1869). Calendar of Carew Manuscripts in the Lambeth Library. Vol III: 1599-1600. (6 vols, 1867–73). London: Longman & Co., et al.
- Canny, Nicholas (7 June 2022). "Hugh O'Neill in Irish historical discourse, c.1550–2021". Irish Historical Studies. 46 (169): 25–51. doi:10.1017/ihs.2022.2. ISSN 0021-1214.
- Casway, Jerrold (2003). "Heroines or Victims? The Women of the Flight of the Earls". New Hibernia Review / Iris Éireannach Nua. 7 (1): 56–74. ISSN 1092-3977. JSTOR 20557855.
- Casway, Jerrold (2016). "Catherine Magennis and the Wives of Hugh O'Neill". Seanchas Ardmhacha: Journal of the Armagh Diocesan Historical Society. 26 (1): 69–79. JSTOR 48568219.
- Concannon, Helena (1920). "'The Woman of the Piercing Wail' (The Lady Nuala O'Donnell)". The Irish Ecclesiastical Record. 16. Dublin: John F. Fowler.
- Dunlop, Robert (1895). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 42. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 188–196.
- Meehan, Charles Patrick (1868). The Fate and Fortunes of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone and Rory O'Donel, Earl of Tyrconnel; Their Flight from Ireland, Their Vicissitudes Abroad, and their Death in Exile (PDF). Dublin: James Duffy.
- Morgan, Hiram (1993). Tyrone's Rebellion: The outbreak of the Nine Years' War in Tudor Ireland. London: The Boydell Press. ISBN 0-85115-683-5.
- Walsh, Paul, ed. (1930). The Will and Family of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone (with an appendix of genealogies) (PDF). Dublin: Sign of the Three Candles.