English Explanatory Dictionary

flight of earls

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. the departure into exile of the Irish chieftain Hugh O'Neill and his followers in 1607.
  2. the mass emigration of the younger population in the 1970s and 1980s due to unemployment.

Word forms

flight of earls
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