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Randal McDonnell (poet)
Randal MacDonnell or McDonnell may refer to: *Randal MacDonnell, 1st Earl of Antrim (died 1636), son of Sorley Boy MacDonnell *Randal MacDonnell, 1st Marquess of Antrim (1645 creation) (1609–1683), son of the 1st Earl of Antrim *Randal MacDonnell, 1st Marquess of Antrim (1789 creation), Earl of Antrim *Randal MacDonnell, 4th Earl of Antrim Randal MacDonnell, 4th Earl of Antrim (1680–1721) was an Irish aristocrat.Ohlmeyer p.34-35 Early life His parents were Alexander MacDonnell, 3rd Earl of Antrim and Helena Burke. He had a young sister named Mary. Through his grandmother Ell ... (1680–1721), Irish aristocrat * Randal McDonnell, 8th Earl of Antrim (1911–1977), diplomat, activist, soldier and administrator from Northern Ireland * Randal McDonnell, 10th Earl of Antrim (born 1967), Scottish landowner {{hndis, Macdonnell, Randal ...
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Randal MacDonnell, 1st Earl Of Antrim
Randall MacSorley MacDonnell, 1st Earl of Antrim, PC (Ire) (died 10 December 1636), rebelled together with Tyrone and Tyrconnell in the Nine Years' War but having succeeded his brother, Sir James mac Sorley MacDonnell, as Lord of the Route and the Glynns in 1601, he submitted to Mountjoy, the Lord Deputy of Ireland, in 1602. In 1618, he became Viscount Dunluce and in 1620 was advanced to Earl of Antrim. However, he remained Catholic. Birth and origins Randal was the fourth son of Sorley Boy MacDonnell and his first wife Mary O'Neill. His father was Lord of the Route. His father's family was a branch of the Scottish Clan Donald. His mother was a daughter of Conn O'Neill, 1st Earl of Tyrone. She died in 1582. Early life In his youth, Randal was fostered in the Gaelic manner and lived with a Presbyterian Stewart family on the Scottish island of Arran. He was therefore called "Arranach" in Irish/Scottish Gaelic (meaning "of Arran"). His fa ...
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Randal MacDonnell, 1st Marquess Of Antrim (1645 Creation)
Randall MacDonnell, 1st Marquess of Antrim (1609–1683) was a Roman Catholic landed magnate in Scotland and Ireland, son of the 1st Earl of Antrim. He was also chief of Clan MacDonnell of Antrim. He is best known for his involvement, mostly on the Royalist side, in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Birth and origins Randal was born on 9 June 1609, probably at Dunluce Castle, his parents' habitual residence. He was the eldest son of Randal MacDonnell and his wife, Alice O'Neill. His father, Lord of the Route and Constable of Dunluce Castle, had been knighted by Lord Lieutenant Mountjoy in 1602. His father was an important landowner in the north-eastern corner of Ireland facing Scotland across the North Channel. His father's family, the MacDonnell of Antrim, were the Irish branch of the Scottish Clan Donald. The MacDonnels descended from the twelfth-century Scottish warlord Somerled and from Alexander MacDonald, 5th of Dunnyveg, a Scottish-Irish magnate, who was d ...
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Randal MacDonnell, 1st Marquess Of Antrim (1789 Creation)
Randal may refer to: People Given name *Randal and Randall (given names), English-language masculine given names. *Randal Gaines, American politician *Rand Paul, United States Senator Surname *Allison Randal, a linguist, software developer and author. *Hakon Randal, (born 1930), a Norwegian politician. Fictional characters *Randal Graves, character in Kevin Smith's ''Clerks'' and ''Clerks II''. Places *Randal, Iran, a village in Gilan Province, Iran *Randal Tyson Track Center, a 5,500-seat indoor track in Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA * Randal, a hamlet of le Vrétot, a French commune in Normandy Other *Randal Óg CLG, a Gaelic Athletic Association club, founded in 1953. *"Lord Randall" or "Lord Randal", a British ballad *Sanjna, also known as 'Randal Maa', A Hindu Goddess See also

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Randal MacDonnell, 4th Earl Of Antrim
Randal MacDonnell, 4th Earl of Antrim (1680–1721) was an Irish aristocrat.Ohlmeyer p.34-35 Early life His parents were Alexander MacDonnell, 3rd Earl of Antrim and Helena Burke. He had a young sister named Mary. Through his grandmother Ellis MacDonnell, Countess of Antrim he was descended from her father Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone and was, therefore, part of the extended O'Neill dynasty which had been the dominant family in Gaelic Ireland until the Flight of the Earls. Randal's father was a leading Catholic, and supporter of James II in the Williamite War, unsuccessfully leading a force to capture Derry in 1688. He was thereby regarded by James II's victorious opponent William III to have forfeited the Earldom in 1689. However, the title was restored in 1697. Randal succeeded to the Earldom following his father's death in 1699. Like his father, he was suspected of Jacobite leanings. He was succeeded by his son Alexander Alexander () is a male name of Greek origin ...
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Randal McDonnell, 8th Earl Of Antrim
Randal John Somerled McDonnell, 8th Earl of Antrim KBE (1911–1977) was a diplomat, activist, soldier and administrator. He became chairman of the National Trust in 1965. Life He was the son of Randal Mark Kerr McDonnell, 7th Earl of Antrim, and his wife, Margaret Isabel Talbot, daughter of John Gilbert Talbot. He was educated at Eton College and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was a friend of Evelyn Waugh, and left without taking a degree. He succeeded his father in 1932. In 1937 Antrim visited Valencia, during the Spanish Civil War, with Cyril Connolly. During the Second World War Antrim was a Royal Navy officer, with the rank of Lieutenant-Commander. With the Special Operations Executive and Peter Fleming he served in various theatres of war. In 1965, Antrim and eleven other Irish peers presented a petition to the House of Lords arguing that the law still provided for Irish representative peers to represent Ireland. Henry Moore, 10th Earl of Drogheda, had continued to si ...
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