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Francisco and the Chieftain's Wife

John P. Rooney

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Description:Ethnic cleansing, famine, assassination — these were the means used to stamp out the Gaelic way of life in Ireland at the end of the sixteenth century; and nowhere more so than in the mountains of North Leitrim. Here the MacClancy clan was engaged in an unending and unequal struggle with the rapacious Bingham brothers: George, the Sheriff of Sligo, and Sir Richard, the Governor of Connacht. It was a war with no quarter asked for or given.Into this battleground stumbled Captain Francisco De Cuellar, a survivor of the Spanish Armada, whose ship had been wrecked on the nearby Sligo coast. Given sanctuary by the clan, he was to spend three months in Rosclogher Castle, living with and like the Irish. He, a cultured product of the European Renaissance, had to adjust to a way of life that had changed little in a thousand years, where wealth was counted in cattle, and where only the strongest could survive. A compensation, however, as far as De Cuellar was concerned, was the attractiveness of Irish women; the chieftain's wife in particular he found "beautiful in the extreme".The author weaves a tale of romance, heroism, betrayal and murder around the known historical facts, using his imagination to fill in the gaps in De Cuellar's own narrative. Presented here is a microcosm of Ireland's condition at this dark time, a time heralding the build-up to the Nine Years War, the Flight of the Earls, and — eventually — the ending of the old Gaelic Order.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Francisco and the Chieftain's Wife. To get started finding Francisco and the Chieftain's Wife, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Ethnic cleansing, famine, assassination — these were the means used to stamp out the Gaelic way of life in Ireland at the end of the sixteenth century; and nowhere more so than in the mountains of North Leitrim. Here the MacClancy clan was engaged in an unending and unequal struggle with the rapacious Bingham brothers: George, the Sheriff of Sligo, and Sir Richard, the Governor of Connacht. It was a war with no quarter asked for or given.Into this battleground stumbled Captain Francisco De Cuellar, a survivor of the Spanish Armada, whose ship had been wrecked on the nearby Sligo coast. Given sanctuary by the clan, he was to spend three months in Rosclogher Castle, living with and like the Irish. He, a cultured product of the European Renaissance, had to adjust to a way of life that had changed little in a thousand years, where wealth was counted in cattle, and where only the strongest could survive. A compensation, however, as far as De Cuellar was concerned, was the attractiveness of Irish women; the chieftain's wife in particular he found "beautiful in the extreme".The author weaves a tale of romance, heroism, betrayal and murder around the known historical facts, using his imagination to fill in the gaps in De Cuellar's own narrative. Presented here is a microcosm of Ireland's condition at this dark time, a time heralding the build-up to the Nine Years War, the Flight of the Earls, and — eventually — the ending of the old Gaelic Order.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Francisco and the Chieftain's Wife. To get started finding Francisco and the Chieftain's Wife, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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