CONQUEST: Eleanor, Countess of Desmond (1545–1638)

A forgotten heroine of the Tudor Wars. By Anne Chambers ‘Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands for their legs could not bear them, they looked like anatomies of death, they spoke like ghosts, crying out of their graves … in a short space there were ... Read more

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