The Flight of the Earls represented the final destruction of the Irish Clan system as it had existed for about 2,000 years from the arrival in Ireland of the Gaels.
The "Flight" was followed by the Plantation of Ulster - the forced displacement of Irish people from Ulster and the settlement of the province by settlers from Scotland, England and Wales.
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Famous people from Sligo include: Cairbre MacNeill, Saint
Attracta, Fearghal O Gadhra, Michael Corcoran, Constance Markievicz, William Butler Yeats, Linda Kearns MacWhinney, Martin
Savage, Frank Carty, Joan O’Hara, Neil Jordan, Bernardo O’Higgins, Carmel
Gunning, Tadhg Dall Ó
hUiginn, Naisse mac Cithruadh.
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