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flight of earls
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flight of earls
noun
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(Ireland, historical) the departure into exile of the Irish chieftain Hugh O'Neill and his followers in 1607.
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(Ireland, poetic) the mass emigration of the younger population in the 1970s and 1980s due to unemployment.
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