Qualla: County Tyrone https://qualla.com/county-tyrone en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/y/county-tyrone-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: County Tyrone https://qualla.com/county-tyrone County Tyrone: Introduction https://qualla.com/county-tyrone/ Photo credit Clemensfranz, CC BY 2.5. Tír Eoghain - 'the land of Eoghan' - is named after a fifth-century prince, the son of Niall of the Nine Hostages, and the territory he held was once enormous. It stretched from the southern shore of Lough Foyle east across what is now County Londonderry, ate into Donegal as far as Inishowen and Raphoe, and made the O'Neill family who ruled it the most powerful Gaelic dynasty in Ulster for a thousand years. The modern County Tyrone is what survives after the Crown carved off Londonderry in 1610 to hand to the London livery companies for profit. Even diminished, Tyrone is still the largest county in Northern Ireland - 3,266 square kilometres of mountains, peat bogs, drumlins, and field-stitched farmland, with the Sperrin range rising in the west and the great inland sea of Lough Neagh lapping the eastern edge.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/y/county-tyrone-wp/gcdy-county-tyrone-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full County Tyrone: The Land of Eoghan https://qualla.com/county-tyrone/ Photo credit yeowatzup, CC BY 2.0. The O'Neills of Tyrone were the Gaelic high kings of Ulster - inheritors of Niall of the Nine Hostages and the dynasty that traced itself back to Eoghan and his brother Conall. Their seat of power moved repeatedly: from the Grianán Aileach hillfort in Donegal until 1101, when the...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/y/county-tyrone-wp/gcdy-county-tyrone-the-land-of-eoghan.mp3 0:06 2 full County Tyrone: Sperrins and Lough Neagh https://qualla.com/county-tyrone/ Photo credit Ardfern, CC BY-SA 3.0. Geographically, Tyrone is a study in contrast. The east, around Lough Neagh - the largest lake in the British Isles by area - is flat peatland. The west rises toward the Sperrin Mountains, with Sawel Mountain at 678 metres being the high point. Between them runs the Strule and it...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/y/county-tyrone-wp/gcdy-county-tyrone-sperrins-and-lough-neagh.mp3 0:06 3 full County Tyrone: The Tyrone GAA Story https://qualla.com/county-tyrone/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 2.0. Gaelic football in Tyrone is more than sport; it is identity. The county has won four All-Ireland titles - in 2003, 2005, 2008, and 2021 - and sixteen Ulster Senior Football Championships dating back to 1956. The 2003 victory under captain Peter Canavan was historic: Tyrone's fir...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/y/county-tyrone-wp/gcdy-county-tyrone-the-tyrone-gaa-story.mp3 0:06 4 full County Tyrone: Tyrone in the World https://qualla.com/county-tyrone/ Photo credit Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0. The county's diaspora reads like a parallel history of the Anglophone world. John Dunlap, born in Strabane in 1747, printed the United States Declaration of Independence. Thomas Mellon, born near Camp Hill, founded Mellon Bank - now Bank of New York Mellon. William McMaster found...

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