Francisco de Cuellar, a captain of the Spanish Armada, was wrecked on the Sligo coast in 1588 and survived months of wandering through Gaelic Ireland. Allingham reconstructs his route through Connacht and Ulster from contemporary sources and local knowledge, and Robert Crawford adds a full English translation of Cuellar’s own vivid letter describing the wreck, the Irish chiefs and his escape.
A rare eyewitness view of sixteenth-century Ireland and the Armada’s ruin, for readers of Irish and Tudor history. Download the free EPUB.