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The Flight of Earls marked the end of Gaelic Ireland, writes IrishAbroad's Douglas Dalby

When the earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnell and their followers sailed from Lough Swilly in September 1607, it marked the end of Gaelic Ireland as a distinct political system.

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