English forces lured Leinster Irish lords to a parley at Mullaghmast in the Pale borderland and massacred them. The event became embedded in Irish historical memory as a byword for English treachery. It stoked the Second Desmond Rebellion and fuelled hatred of English rule. Yeats referenced Mullaghmast in his speeches centuries later.
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