Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone

Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone, was an Irish Gaelic lord and leader of resistance to Tudor rule during the Nine Years’ War. His alliance-building and military success made him the most formidable Irish opponent of Elizabethan conquest.

Winston Graham’s The Grove of Eagles places Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone within a narrative shaped by family, marriage and personal loyalty, court politics and dynastic power, and religion, belief and institutional authority.