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26 MUNSTER All this shore had fine natural advantages for smug- gling which in old days were not neglected: and still, I am told, certain places could be named where cigars and wines of excellent quality can be had at surprisingly moderate price. Kinsale is a greater haven, fit in old days to be the rival of Cork; and the town there speaks of pros- perous merchant folk, with its quaint weather-slated houses, each having the little bow -window which eighteenth - century mariners would seem to have specially affected, and its very old-world bowling green. Here was the theatre on which Ireland saw a great game played out the last and losing throw in the war of O'Neill and O'Donnell against the forces of Elizabeth. At the long last, the promised help from the Continent had come; a Spanish fleet under Don Juan d'Aquila entered the harbour, seized and held the town, which was beleaguered by the English (and Irish allies) under Mountjoy and Carew. O'Neill and O'Donnell, marching down from the north, drew an outer line about the besiegers, and on December 21 st battle was joined. Tyrone would have waited, wisely, till the siege could be raised by cutting the English communications, and the force attacked on the march. But Red Hugh was always bad at waiting, and forced the attack. The combination failed, the Spaniards
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Page 49 and 50: MUNSTER 37 profited by confiscation
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