Hello everyone and welcome to the History of England episode 380 Irish Revolution.

Now, Philim and Neil was one of the winners from the English colonial state in Ireland.

He came from Anim Peckable, native Irish family with roots in Ulster. He was a descendant of

the rebellious Earl of Tyrone, Hugh O'Neill, although Philim's branch of the family had abandoned

Tyrone in an attempt to hold onto their lands which they had done. As the inheritor of extensive

estate at a very young age, Philim was a royal ward throughout his young years and every effort

was made to bring him to the Protestant faith and he did become a rather reluctant Protestant for a while.

But in 1628, the partial concessions made under the graces allowed him to take an oath of loyalty

to Charles and yet returned to the religion of his ancestors which he duly did. Still, he was from

the start in full communion with the King of England on his way to becoming anglicised at least

to a large degree. He attended Lincoln's Inn for his education, for example. And when back in

Ireland, he married well and then he took part in all aspects of the colonial administration. He

was a JP. He sat in the Irish Parliament. Yet he remained linked to the leading Galic families,

such as Randall McDonald, the Earl of Antrim. He held a state of a stonking 4,500 acres,

many of them acquired through the plantation policies with English settlers, so he shouldn't have

been short of a Bob or two. In a sense, then Philim O'Neil was very much typical of the objective

of English policy in Ireland to make Ireland English. Another important thing to know about

Philim was that he had a good time, according to his station in life. He would not be the first

young nobleman to live beyond his means, in a way one contemporary described, as free and

generous as could be desired. Almost certainly, freer and more generous than he should have desired.

In fact, as a result, he was indeed very short of Bob's. In fact, by 1640 he had debts of 12,000

pounds, which is a lot of Bob. So he helped pretty exposed and very nervous. But then he was

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