In this story we hear echoing voices from a forgotten past. In the late
1500s in the dying light of Gaelic Ireland, Hugh O'Neill, Earl of
Tyrone, led the northern chieftains in a last brave struggle for faith
and fatherland; to rid Ireland of an encroaching English influence, and
to retain her ancient Celtic way of life. At the time of the Tyrone
Rebellion the northern part of Ireland, together with the Western Isles
and Highlands of Scotland were the last remnants of a 2,000 year old
Celtic culture. The western isles furnished a cadre of elite mercenary
warriors who fought for these northern chieftains. This book is a ramble
through Irish history, and closely follows actual historical events. It
is interspersed with chapters relating to more modern times that serve
to link Ireland's past to Ireland's present, and that will acquaint the
reader with how those events of the sixteenth century have had such an
impact on modern day Northern Ireland.