The Story of the Elizabethans - 2020

Living in exile

The only authenticated image

of Hugh O’Neill, depicted

in a Vatican fresco attending

a canonisation with the Spanish

ambassador in 1608. A year

earlier, he had fled Ireland

following the collapse of his

revolt against English rule MU

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