| Armada 1588 20:57 - Jun 3 with 3107 views | Moriarty |
https://www.spanisharmadaireland.com/film
Given the occasional thread on films and the like, feel free to check this out. I haven’t seen it yet but I do intend to.
PS - it’s 30 mins or so.
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| Armada 1588 on 21:15 - Jun 3 with 2743 views | Moriarty |
Thanks for that and I’ll have a browse.
De Cuellar’s story, the subject of the above docudrama is well known around Mayo and Sligo and hopefully now further afield I heard a little about it on the wireless this a.m. | |
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| Armada 1588 on 21:17 - Jun 3 with 2730 views | footers |
| Armada 1588 on 21:15 - Jun 3 by Moriarty |
Thanks for that and I’ll have a browse.
De Cuellar’s story, the subject of the above docudrama is well known around Mayo and Sligo and hopefully now further afield I heard a little about it on the wireless this a.m. |
My mum's from Binghamstown, Mayo and I've heard the family talk about this a bit before. But cheers for the link, surely they will appreciate it. |  |
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| Armada 1588 on 21:24 - Jun 3 with 2705 views | leitrimblue |
| Armada 1588 on 21:15 - Jun 3 by Moriarty |
Thanks for that and I’ll have a browse.
De Cuellar’s story, the subject of the above docudrama is well known around Mayo and Sligo and hopefully now further afield I heard a little about it on the wireless this a.m. |
Think he spent a lot of his time in Ireland with O'Rourke in Co, Leitrim |  | | |
| Armada 1588 **Possible Spoiler** on 21:31 - Jun 3 with 2688 views | Guthrum |
In their attempt to return to Spain by going around Scotland and Ireland, the Armada was doomed not just by the weather, but also by their charts, which did not accurately show how far the rocky headlands of the latter extend westwards into the Atlantic. |  |
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| Armada 1588 **Possible Spoiler** on 21:38 - Jun 3 with 2664 views | factual_blue |
| Armada 1588 **Possible Spoiler** on 21:31 - Jun 3 by Guthrum |
In their attempt to return to Spain by going around Scotland and Ireland, the Armada was doomed not just by the weather, but also by their charts, which did not accurately show how far the rocky headlands of the latter extend westwards into the Atlantic. |
A catastrophe for their Chief Navigator, known to history only as 'El Newcy'. |  |
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| Armada 1588 on 21:42 - Jun 3 with 2658 views | Moriarty |
| Armada 1588 on 21:17 - Jun 3 by footers |
My mum's from Binghamstown, Mayo and I've heard the family talk about this a bit before. But cheers for the link, surely they will appreciate it. |
I live in Dublin but hail from further South in Munster. Like all Western coastal counties, Mayo is a great spot. | |
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| Armada 1588 **Possible Spoiler** on 21:44 - Jun 3 with 2665 views | BarcaBlue |
| Armada 1588 **Possible Spoiler** on 21:31 - Jun 3 by Guthrum |
In their attempt to return to Spain by going around Scotland and Ireland, the Armada was doomed not just by the weather, but also by their charts, which did not accurately show how far the rocky headlands of the latter extend westwards into the Atlantic. |
... and I read in my kids' history books from their school here that Francis Drake wasn't hero material but a low-life English pirate. |  | | |
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| Armada 1588 on 21:45 - Jun 3 with 2650 views | Moriarty |
| Armada 1588 on 21:24 - Jun 3 by leitrimblue |
Think he spent a lot of his time in Ireland with O'Rourke in Co, Leitrim |
I noticed that. My mother’s maiden name is O’Rourke. An O’Rourke played for us in 1968/69. | |
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| Armada 1588 **Possible Spoiler** on 21:47 - Jun 3 with 2651 views | factual_blue |
| Armada 1588 **Possible Spoiler** on 21:44 - Jun 3 by BarcaBlue |
... and I read in my kids' history books from their school here that Francis Drake wasn't hero material but a low-life English pirate. |
A major part of the reason he circumnavigated the world was to throw off the Spanish ships after him. The plunder he arrived back in England with was worth about £160,000 (around half a billion in today's money).
#absolutelegend
#rulebritannia
#balls | |
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| Armada 1588 on 21:48 - Jun 3 with 2638 views | Keno |
| Armada 1588 on 21:42 - Jun 3 by Moriarty |
I live in Dublin but hail from further South in Munster. Like all Western coastal counties, Mayo is a great spot. |
I love Munster Rugby team |  |
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| Armada 1588 on 21:48 - Jun 3 with 2638 views | factual_blue |
| Armada 1588 on 21:45 - Jun 3 by Moriarty |
I noticed that. My mother’s maiden name is O’Rourke. An O’Rourke played for us in 1968/69. |
Your mother Ann O'Rourke played for Town?
We've always been a ground-breaking club. [Post edited 3 Jun 2020 21:51]
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| Armada 1588 on 21:51 - Jun 3 with 2629 views | leitrimblue |
| Armada 1588 on 21:45 - Jun 3 by Moriarty |
I noticed that. My mother’s maiden name is O’Rourke. An O’Rourke played for us in 1968/69. |
Yer probably really a Leitrim man then Moriarty. The O'Rourkes we're the Gealic Lord's of West Briefne an we're based here around Dromahair in Co, Leitrim | | | |
| Armada 1588 on 21:52 - Jun 3 with 2638 views | Keno |
It a little known historical fact that the effectiveness of the Spanish was severely affected by a lot of the senior officers suffering from deafness
It was known as Am ‘arda Hearing [Post edited 3 Jun 2020 21:59]
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| Armada 1588 on 21:55 - Jun 3 with 2617 views | footers |
| Armada 1588 on 21:42 - Jun 3 by Moriarty |
I live in Dublin but hail from further South in Munster. Like all Western coastal counties, Mayo is a great spot. |
As an atheist, the West coast of Ireland soon made me realise why believing in god was not just normal but completely understandable. Insanely beautiful.
Not much to do, mind you!
It's also great for the odd drug shipment getting washed up... | |
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| Armada 1588 **Possible Spoiler** on 21:57 - Jun 3 with 2605 views | footers |
| Armada 1588 **Possible Spoiler** on 21:47 - Jun 3 by factual_blue |
A major part of the reason he circumnavigated the world was to throw off the Spanish ships after him. The plunder he arrived back in England with was worth about £160,000 (around half a billion in today's money).
#absolutelegend
#rulebritannia
#balls |
And he was the discoverer of our national food, chips. | |
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| Armada 1588 on 22:00 - Jun 3 with 2585 views | solemio |
| Armada 1588 on 21:45 - Jun 3 by Moriarty |
I noticed that. My mother’s maiden name is O’Rourke. An O’Rourke played for us in 1968/69. |
I seem to recall that John O'Rourke kept Mick Lambert out of the team for a couple of seasons. |  | | |
| Armada 1588 on 22:01 - Jun 3 with 2581 views | leitrimblue |
| Armada 1588 on 21:17 - Jun 3 by footers |
My mum's from Binghamstown, Mayo and I've heard the family talk about this a bit before. But cheers for the link, surely they will appreciate it. |
Was working not far from there at the end of last year. Stunning but incredibly rural | | | |
| Armada 1588 on 22:04 - Jun 3 with 2574 views | footers |
| Armada 1588 on 22:01 - Jun 3 by leitrimblue |
Was working not far from there at the end of last year. Stunning but incredibly rural |
What the hell took you there?!
I do love it, but by god it's like time's stood still. As a Londoner (now), it's a dramatic change of pace...
Living there you may get accustomed but as a visitor, does the time ever drag when you're not in the pub! | |
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| Armada 1588 on 22:10 - Jun 3 with 2562 views | Moriarty |
| Armada 1588 on 21:48 - Jun 3 by factual_blue |
Your mother Ann O'Rourke played for Town?
We've always been a ground-breaking club. [Post edited 3 Jun 2020 21:51]
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An Ann or an Anne? My Mother’s neither.
John wasn’t related. As far as I know. | |
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| Armada 1588 on 22:13 - Jun 3 with 2549 views | Moriarty |
| Armada 1588 on 21:51 - Jun 3 by leitrimblue |
Yer probably really a Leitrim man then Moriarty. The O'Rourkes we're the Gealic Lord's of West Briefne an we're based here around Dromahair in Co, Leitrim |
My Mother’s hails from the Banner and my Father from the Kingdom (although he has an English passport as, despite her best efforts, his Mother didn’t get back in time). | |
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| Armada 1588 on 22:13 - Jun 3 with 2546 views | factual_blue |
| Armada 1588 on 21:48 - Jun 3 by Keno |
I love Munster Rugby team |
Not in the biblical sense I hope! | |
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| Armada 1588 **Possible Spoiler** on 22:15 - Jun 3 with 2547 views | WeWereZombies |
| Armada 1588 **Possible Spoiler** on 21:57 - Jun 3 by footers |
And he was the discoverer of our national food, chips. |
Sorry, but I think some South American forerunners of the Incas discovered potatoes, and it was Sir Walter Raleigh who introduced them to England. |  |
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| Armada 1588 **Possible Spoiler** on 22:17 - Jun 3 with 2542 views | footers |
| Armada 1588 **Possible Spoiler** on 22:15 - Jun 3 by WeWereZombies |
Sorry, but I think some South American forerunners of the Incas discovered potatoes, and it was Sir Walter Raleigh who introduced them to England. |
The most successful franchisee in history then. | |
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| Armada 1588 on 22:20 - Jun 3 with 2537 views | leitrimblue |
| Armada 1588 on 22:04 - Jun 3 by footers |
What the hell took you there?!
I do love it, but by god it's like time's stood still. As a Londoner (now), it's a dramatic change of pace...
Living there you may get accustomed but as a visitor, does the time ever drag when you're not in the pub! |
Nah man i enjoy the slower life.I work as an archaeological consultant and had to spend a few days there monitoring some lads doing excavations with heavy machinery close to a ringfort. | | | |
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