Hugh O'Sullivan 1580

Jannuary 1580

Oh my dear homeland, my dear and loved Ireland! I failed to protect you! In Count Kerry I fought on the side of the Irish rebells together with and Italian capatain and 5 dozen Spanish soldiers against the Elizabethans! It was a bloody fight, the English won and it is a miracle I am still alive.
Now Queen Elizabeth sent her soldiers the "Elizabethans" to Ireland and they are bringing nothing than disaster: they massacre our people, they clear the forests and they treat us like barbariens because we don't life like them in big cities.
Back when the Black Plague was spreading in The Pale in 1348, most of them died in those cities! And the Irish, in their "barbaric" rural sheds survived! It seems as if at least god cared, even though the pope ignored the cry for help form the Irish back then!
We won't change neither our langage nor our religion just because some British Queen tells us to!  I heard the buzzword that in Ulster O'Neil, who for long thime cooporated with the British, and O'Donnel are preparing to fight the English.


The Pale: 
Dublin and it's surroundings are called The Pale.

The Black Plague:
It spreat in The Pale around 1348 and a lot of British died. This was because British lived in bigger cities, where the deasease would spreat more easyly. A lot of Irish people lived in more rural homes so they were save.

Queen Elizabeth:
Became Queen avert King Henry VIII died. She was not a really religious queen but rememberd what her catholic sister, Mary (Bloody Mary), did to protestants. As religon is becoming more and more an issue in Europe, Queen Elizabeth sends her soldierst - the Elizabethans - to Ireland to install her rules and religion.

O'Neil & O'Donnel:
Where two Irish landlords who sometimes colaborated with the British in order to keep their power in Ireland. Finally in 1580 they allianced together against the British for a war that would last 9 years.

Ulster:
Was Irelands most Gealic region at the time.