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Alasdair Mac Colla
Scottish knight · Actors · Lived 1610 to 1647 · aged 37
Sir Alasdair Mac Colla Chiotaich MacDhòmhnaill, also known by the English variant of his name Sir Alexander MacDonald, was a military officer best known for his participation in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, notably the Irish Confederate Wars and Montrose's Royalist campaign in Scotland during 1644-45.
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Randal Macdonnell, 1st Marquess of Antrim. Antrim was a kinsman of the Macdonalds of Dunnyveg, and much of Mac Colla's career would be in the service of his interests in Scotland and Ireland.
The Marquess of Montrose, alongside whom Mac Colla fought in 1644-45 against the forces of the Parliament of Scotland.About this person
A member of the Gaelic gentry of the Clan MacDonald of Dunnyveg, a branch of the Clan Donald active in the Hebrides and Ireland, Mac Colla is particularly notable for the very large number of oral traditions and legends which his life inspired in the Highlands.
