Repatriating the remains of Patrick Sarsfield

Sir,—James O’Neill’s interesting article on the ongoing search for the remains of Red Hugh O’Donnell in Valladolid, Spain (HI 28.4, July/Aug. 2020), brings to mind another heroic Irish leader who is also buried on foreign soil—General Patrick Sarsfield, first earl of Lucan, defender of Limerick, who fought on the Jacobean side in the fateful Williamite ... Read more

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