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The Flight of the Earls' Lost Ships: The Spanish Armada in Ireland
In 1588, the Spanish Armada's scattered ships met disaster on Ireland's coast. This episode tells the story of La Girona, the galleass that wrecked at Lacada Point with nearly 1,300 men aboard, including Alonso Martínez de Leyva, one of Spain's finest captains. We follow the desperate journey of the Armada survivors from the failed invasion to the Irish shores, where English commanders like Richard Bingham hunted them down. We meet Tadhg Ó Briain, an Irish chieftain who sheltered some survivors, and Gráinne Ní Mháille, the pirate queen entangled in the chaos. We look at the…
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