Shane O'Neill: 'The Grand Disturber' of Elizabethan IrelandAn historically rooted and dramatic telling of the life of Shane O'Neill, 'a rogue and a rakehell' who was the arch foe of young Queen Elizabeth I in the early years of her reign. Needing to assert her absolute power, she denied his claim to succeed his father as Earl of Tyrone, setting off a chain of events that nearly saw the English driven out of Ireland. With his victories rose his ambitions, until only the kingship of Ireland would satisfy him.