Events

• The East Ulster Plantation degenerates into a series of atrocities against the local civilian population before finally being abandoned. Brian MacPhelim O'Neill of Clandeboye
  Clandeboye
  Clandeboye is in modern times an area of Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. It is named after the Clandeboye family, a branch of the O'Neill dynasty. They settled in the 1330s after the death of the Earl of Ulster in what is now south Antrim and north Down, giving their name to the territory...
  
  , his wife and 200 clansmen were massacred at a feast organised by Essex
  Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex
  Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, KG , an English nobleman and general. From 1573 until his death he fought in Ireland in connection with the Plantation of Ulster, where he ordered the massacre of Rathlin Island...
  
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