Welcome back to This Day in Irish History. I’m your host, Raymond Welsh. Today, we turn our attention to February 3, 1537—a day that marked the brutal end of one of Ireland’s most powerful dynasties. On this day, Thomas FitzGerald, Lord of Offaly, and five of his uncles were executed at Tyburn in London. Their deaths brought about the destruction of the once-mighty FitzGerald dynasty, a family that had held immense influence in Ireland for centuries.