Book Review: a Spanish captain's account of 1500s Ireland

"Captain de Cuéllar wrote himself into Ireland’s history with his Carta, a vibrant 11,000-word account – which is included in full as an annex in this book – of his seven months with the Gaelic Irish of the north-west"

Fighting between the English fleet and the Spanish Armada during the abortive attempt by Spain to invade England in 1588.

• Captain Francisco de Cuéllar: The Armada, Ireland and the Wars of the Spanish Monarchy, 1578-1606
• Francis Kelly 
• Four Courts Press, €31.50
• Review: David Kernek