16th-century woodcut of Silken Thomas's attack on Dublin Castle

The brief revolt by his son " Silken Thomas " in 1534 – 35 led on to the Tudor conquest of Ireland in the following decades, in which Dublin and the surviving Pale was used as the main military base for expansion.

O ' Neill's career was played out against the background of the Tudor conquest of Ireland, and he is best known for leading the resistance during the Nine Years War, the strongest threat to English authority in Ireland since the revolt of Silken Thomas.

* 1534 – The Irish rebel Silken Thomas is executed by the order of Henry VIII in London, England.

Following a failed rebellion against the crown by Silken Thomas, the Earl of Kildare, in the 1530s, Henry VIII was declared King of Ireland by statute of the Irish parliament, with the aim of restoring such central authority as had been lost throughout the country during the previous two hundred years.

Henry put down the rebellion by executing the leader (" Silken Thomas " Fitzgerald ), along with several of his uncles, and imprisoned Gearoid Og, the head of the family.

*" The Silken Tent " music by Alexander Goehr, William Byrd, Michael Nyman, Henry Purcell, Claude Debussy etc.

The group includes the Afghan Hound, Azawakh, Basenji, Borzoi, Canaan Dog, Carolina Dog, Chart Polski ( Polish Greyhound ), Cirneco dell ' Etna, Greyhound, Hungarian Greyhound, Ibizan Hound, Irish Wolfhound, New Guinea Singing Dog, Pharaoh Hound, Portuguese Podengo, Rhodesian Ridgeback, Saluki, Scottish Deerhound, Sinhala Hound, Silken Windhound, Sloughi, Spanish Greyhound, Thai Ridgeback, Whippet, and Xoloitzcuintli.

Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare ( 1513 – 1537 ), also known as Silken Thomas (), was a figure in Irish history.

The tenth Earl, Thomas FitzGerald, known as Silken Thomas, was attainted and his honours were forfeit in 1537.

The first was entitled Silken Threads and another was called The Clue of the Second Goblet.

His son, the fifth Baron, was a soldier and statesman who was accused of complicity in the rebellion of Silken Thomas.

The castle was a stronghold of the 16th century historical figure Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare better known as Silken Thomas.

It changed hands many times during its violent history, for example, it was burned by the O ' Dempseys in 1284, rebuilt by de Vesey and given to the king, burned along with its town by the Scots army in 1315, burned by the O ' Moores in 1346, captured by the O ' Dempseys in 1422 and then lost to the Earl of Ormond in 1452, used by Silken Thomas Fitzgerald as a refuge in 1535, mortgaged to Sir Maurice Fitzgerald in 1556, and leased to Robert Bath in 1618.

In 1537, the same dynasty, led by Silken Thomas, who was angry at the imprisonment of Garret Fitzgerald, Earl of Kildare, besieged Dublin Castle.

For this crime Silken Thomas was excommunicated by the Pope and thus lost many of his adherents.

However, the eighth earl ’ s grandson, the eloquently titled Silken Thomas was executed in 1537, with his five uncles, for leading an uprising against the English.

Her final competitive race was at the 1996 Summer Olympics, where Silken won a silver medal in single sculls.

His book, Behind the Silken Curtain a Personal Account of Anglo-American Diplomacy in Palestine and the Middle East was published by Simon & Schuster in 1947.

However a rebellion by the 9th Earl's heir Silken Thomas in 1535 led on to a less sympathetic system of rule by mainly English-born administrators.

16th-century woodcut of an attack on Dublin Castle by Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Kildare | " Silken Thomas ", 7th Earl of Kildare

Signs were placed on all four Quad street corners ( as part of the Silken Renovation of 2002 ) emblazoned only with the Harvard shield and the words " The Quadrangle: Harvard University ".

In 2008, they recorded two tracks on Ryuichi Sakamoto's album ' out of noise ', and they have subsequently issued their latest recording-' The Silken Tent ' - in Japan only on Sakamoto's label commmons.

Three of his pictures, The Silken Gown, Faults on Both Sides, and The Highland Mother are in the Tate Gallery and a further two, Highland Mary and The Reaper hang in the Aberdeen Art Gallery.

* Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare ( d. 1537 ), " Silken Thomas ", eldest son of the 9th Earl, led an insurrection in Ireland and his honours were forfeit, and he died unmarried

* John Alen Archbishop of Dublin, and Chancellor of Ireland, ( 1476 – 1534 ), casualty of the " Silken Thomas " Fitzgerald rebellion in 1534, and his cousin John Alan ( c. 1500-1561 ), also Lord Chancellor, buried at Donoghcomper.

* Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare ( d. 1537 ), " Silken Thomas ", eldest son of the 9th Earl, led an insurrection in Ireland and his honours were forfeit, and he died unmarried

### McKinley, Daniel ( 1999 ), “ Pinna And Her Silken Beard: A Foray Into Historical Misappropriations ,” Ars Textrina 29, pp. 9-29

Silken ( kinugoshi ) firm tofu, cut into cubes, is lightly dusted with potato starch or cornstarch and then deep fried until golden brown.

Among the most successful comedies he afterwards wrote may be mentioned The Merry Widow, 1863 ; Silken Fetters, 1863 ; The Silver Lining, 1864 ; and Faces in the Fire, 1865.

Ireland's oldest tree, the Silken Thomas Yew, is 700 – 800 years old.

In 2007 she won the FICEB Best Director award for Silken Sleeves.

In 1534, when Silken Thomas appeared in Dublin, the citizens, feeling themselves unable to defend the city, allowed his troops to enter and lay siege to Dublin Castle.

In 1938, Chiasson, with the permission of the Vatican, transferred the See of the Diocese from English-speaking Chatham to French-speaking Bathurst, which caused considerable concern among St Thomas's supporters in Chatham.

A knee injury damaged Thomas's certain first round pick status and caused him to slip into second round ( 40th overall ) of the 1988 NFL draft by the Buffalo Bills, their first choice in the draft.

Lack of promotion caused by the death of Thomas's step brother, Duranthony Evans who was killed in a drive by on Halloween night on Aurora's east side was a contributing factor.

Thomas's principal influence lay in the communication of an attitude -- that of the now extinct British romantic school of the New Apocalypse -- Henry Treece, J. F. Hendry, and others -- all of whom were quite conventional poets.

Sherman's effort was overshadowed by George Henry Thomas's army's successful assault on the center of the Confederate line, a movement originally intended as a diversion.

When Henry dies, Thomas's scheming brother Ned ( Guy Rolfe ) takes over as Lord Protector and guardian of King Edward VI ( Rex Thompson ) during his minority, overriding Henry's wish that Thomas raise the boy.

Upon his death his titles and estates were forfeited, but in 1323 his younger brother Henry successfully petitioned to take possession of the Earldom of Leicester, and in 1326 or 1327 Parliament posthumously reversed Thomas's conviction, and Henry was further permitted to take possession of the Earldoms of Lancaster, Derby, Salisbury and Lincoln.

The very next year he was murdered, possibly by order of Henry, Thomas's brother and heir.

Thomas's first movie was Home to Stay directed by Delbert Mann where Thomas played in a scene with Hollywood legend Henry Fonda.

After Thomas's death, Helen married Henry Peirson Harland ( of the Harland and Wolff family ) and died 22 August 1966 in Northern Ireland.

Having no heir, Thomas's possessions and titles went to his younger brother Henry – Grosmont's father.

The earldom became extinct at his death, while the barony of Jermyn of St Edmundsbury passed by special remainder, together with his property, to his nephew Thomas Jermyn ( 1633 – 1703 ), and after the latter's death to Thomas's brother Henry Baron Dover.

In 1768 he became assistant to Henry Read ( 1686 – 1774 ) in the presbyterian congregation at St. Thomas's, Southwark, and succeeded him as pastor in 1774.

Sherman reacted as Johnston hoped, ordering James B. McPherson and the bulk of George Henry Thomas's army toward Kingston while sending only John Schofield and one corps of Thomas ' army along the road to Cassville.

Starting in this season, at the beginning of each show, the characters ' numbers would appear on each cab starting from Henry to Edward to Thomas as the countdown ( along with the TV rating ), the workmen would then get Thomas ready for the new day and Thomas's driver would signal the workmen that Thomas is ready by blowing Thomas ' whistle and Thomas would start his adventures.