Saturday, February 28, 2026

Ireland and the Forgotten Cost

 


The Armada did not end in the Channel.

It ended on foreign shores, among civilians, in storms and reprisals rarely folded into triumphal history.

Ireland paid a price largely absent from English memory.

Victory had consequences beyond celebration.

Some recent works now follow the story beyond England’s horizon.


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