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Eugene Egan

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Egan obtained the degrees of Master of Arts and Bachelor of Divinity from a Spanish university. In 1600 he was in Ireland actively encouraging rebellion, meeting
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had enjoyed success in the field against Tyrone's rebellion, and Kinsale was closely invested. The rebel forces grew.
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summoned Egan back to Rome, appointed him apostolic vicar, created him D.D., and conferred on him livings in
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and other variants) (died 1603) was a Catholic apostolic vicar in Ireland, designated
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in 1601, to support the rebellion which Tyrone had raised in the south of Ireland.
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on 5 January 1603, where he was killed. He was buried in the convent of
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Egan's career ended in an encounter with English soldiers under
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in June 1602, in a ship bringing troops and finance from Spain.
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Tyrone and Florence MacCarthy sent Egan to Rome in quest of an
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to Ireland. Egan then gained access to the Spanish court at
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for all that did not rebel. One result was that the
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Roman Catholic bishops of Cork or Cloyne or of Ross
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"McEgan, Owen". 1: 582:Thomas Alphonsus O'Callaghan 203:UK public library membership 62:Luigi Mansoni was appointed 7: 119: 25:bishop of Ross, County Cork 10: 821: 126:Catholic Church in Ireland 766: 729: 703: 696: 641: 600: 569: 562: 518: 480: 473: 438: 391: 334: 327: 770:apostolic administrators 131: 49:Florence MacCarthy Reagh 47:, and co-operating with 34: 195:10.1093/ref:odnb/17480 158:"MacEgan, Owen"  408:Bonaventura Naughton 72:Philip III of Spain 659:William Fitzgerald 544:Bartholomew Crotty 416:Florence MacCarthy 777: 776: 762: 761: 692: 691: 558: 557: 534:William Coppinger 469: 468: 461:Thaddeus McCarthy 434: 433: 201:(Subscription or 80:Pope Clement VIII 812: 800:Apostolic vicars 701: 700: 567: 566: 478: 477: 457:Donagh MacCarthy 443: 442: 404:Thomas O'Herlahy 332: 331: 316: 309: 302: 293: 292: 284: 283: 282: 272: 271: 260: 259: 258: 251: 243: 222: 221: 207: 206: 198: 180: 169: 168: 160: 149: 89:Egan arrived at 820: 819: 815: 814: 813: 811: 810: 809: 780: 779: 778: 773: 758: 739:Cornelius Lucey 725: 688: 684:Cornelius Lucey 637: 596: 592:Cornelius Lucey 554: 539:Michael Collins 530:Matthew McKenna 519:Cloyne and Ross 514: 465: 446:Cork and Cloyne 430: 423:Boetius MacEgan 387: 367:Dermot McCraghe 359:Nicholas Landes 343:Lewis Macnamara 336:Cork and Cloyne 323: 320: 290: 280: 278: 266: 256: 254: 246: 232:, ed. 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bishop of Ross, County Cork
Nine Years' War
Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone
Tipperary
Florence MacCarthy Reagh
excommunication
Jesuit
papal nuncio
Valladolid
Philip III of Spain
Kinsale
Pope Clement VIII
Munster
Kilmakilloge
Kenmare Bay
Charles Blount, 8th Baron Mountjoy
William Taaffe
Carberry
Timoleague
Catholic Church in Ireland




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"MacEgan, Owen" 
Dictionary of National Biography


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