If the Wild Atlantic Way is not just about tourist marketing…
To close the evening, this important if not quite urgent message from Irish historian Hiram Morgan, telllng it like it is: Even though the Armada had failed in the English Channel, its terrible end on the Irish coast had ironic consequences as it had destabilised the North-West and helped usher in the Nine Years War (1594-1603) during which the Irish leaders sought Spanish assistance against England. And: Lord Deputy Fitzwilliam, who made a looping march through Connacht and Ulster in …