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Ulick Fionn Burke

d. 1509 · 15th century

Ulick Fionn Burke was Mac William Uachtar, lord of Clanricarde in south Galway, from 1485 until his death in 1509. In 1504 he led an alliance with the O'Briens and other Gaelic lords against Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare, the Lord Deputy of Ireland, and was heavily defeated at the Battle of Knockdoe near Galway, one of the largest battles fought in medieval Ireland.

Ulick Fionn Burke
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