The digital audio play brings to life many of the key figures mentioned in the letter, including Irish chieftain Tadhg Óg ...

Cuéllar’s letter remains a key historical source on conditions in the northwest of Ireland in the late 16th century. After the wreck, he travelled across Sligo and Leitrim, receiving refuge from local ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. This week in history Spanish sailor Francisco de Cuellar was marooned on a beach on the West Coast of ...

More than four centuries after it sank to the sea bed, the secrets of a Spanish Armada wreck are being uncovered off the west coast of Ireland. A number of cannons, timbers and an anchor from La ...

Archaeologists have set out to discover whether hundreds of Spanish Armada sailors are buried on a plot of land near Dunluce Castle on Northern Ireland’s Causeway Coast. According to legend, more than ...

THREE historical shipwrecks were discovered at Dublin’s Portmarnock Strand earlier this week. It comes after the National Monuments Service (NMS) was inspecting another sunken vessel that had become ...

The English navy inflicted a narrow defeat on the Armada, but it was the Irish coast that encompassed its downfall. Heed that coast! The Duke of Medina Sidonia wanted only to guide La Felissima Armada ...

A Spanish Armada cannon is delicately directed through a window at Derry’s Tower Museum ahead of becoming part of a new exhibition. The naval artillery piece was shifted from its original home by a ...

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