I noted that many of you had the Idea that the survivors of the - TopicsExpress



          

I noted that many of you had the Idea that the survivors of the Spanish Armada settled in Ireland and married into the Irish which created the saying the Black Irish , Well it might have been in a nice book or Novel but alas that is not the way it was . First, most of the 24 ships that sank had very few survivors , many of those survivors were captured and executed along with any Irish that helped them. The ones that did survive fled across the sea to a safer Scotland and I presume made their way home to Spain.. At Doolin (1588) 170 survivors of a wrecked Spanish Armada Ship were caught and Hung , this was ordered by High Sheriff of Clare, Boetius Clancy. Not all our history is glorious but I would believe the ordinary Irish people would have helped the Spanish if possible but orders came direct from Henry VIIIs daughter Queen Elizabeth I .. a bit of a tyrant Queen..
Posted on: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 14:26:52 +0000

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