{"id":30766,"date":"2019-03-06T14:02:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T14:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=30766"},"modified":"2019-04-02T09:59:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T08:59:29","slug":"a-to-z-of-historical-blunders-episode-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=30766","title":{"rendered":"A to Z of Historical Blunders: Episode 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?hide_cover=1&amp;feed=%2Fnearfm%2Fthe-os-have-it%2F\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The O&#8217;s have it<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the A to Z of Historical Blunders, the show that reminds us about the dangers of history repeating itself.<\/p>\n<p>This week, our dial will oscillate between the Flight of the Earls and the first half of the 19th century.\u00a0<strong><br \/>\n\u200b<\/strong><br \/>\nIn September 14th, 1607 Hugh O\u2019Neill, Earl of Tyrone, and Rory O\u2019Donnell, Earl of Tyrconnell left Ireland\u2019s shores for good. The event is commonly known as The Flight of the Earls and those who took part in the flight became known as the \u201cNoble Ninety-Nine.\u201d According to McCavitt in\u00a0<em>The Flight of the Earls<\/em>, this event began the \u201clost leader syndrome\u201d in Irish history. Two hundred and forty years later, another \u2018lost leader\u2019 would die in Geneva on his way to Rome, the final address, incidentally, of O\u2019Neill and O\u2019Donnell. Neither the Earls nor the King of the Beggars would set foot in Ireland again, but they could not have known this when they embarked on their journeys.<\/p>\n<p>Guests this week are\u00a0Derek O\u2019Brien and\u00a0Michael Carragher<\/p>\n<p>The article on which this episode is based can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldfilibuster.com\/the-os-have-it.html\">read here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=30578\">Previous Episode Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The O&#8217;s have it Welcome to the A to Z of Historical Blunders, the show that reminds us about the dangers of history repeating itself. This week, our dial will oscillate between the Flight of the Earls and the first half of the 19th century.\u00a0 \u200b In September 14th, 1607 Hugh O\u2019Neill, Earl of Tyrone, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10362],"tags":[13484,10363,13485,11301,13482,13481,13480,10373,13475,13476,13483,13479,13477,13478],"class_list":["post-30766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-to-z-of-historical-blunders","tag-battle-of-kinsale","tag-berni-dwan","tag-daniel-oconnell","tag-derek-obrien","tag-earl-of-tyrconnell","tag-earl-of-tyrone","tag-hugh-oneill","tag-michael-carragher","tag-odonnell","tag-oneill","tag-rory-odonnell","tag-the-flight-of-the-earls","tag-the-nine-year-war","tag-the-pale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31156,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30766\/revisions\/31156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}