Contents

Twilight of the Gaelic Culture

Th e Pre Cromewellian Period 1600-1650

Cromwell's arrival in Roscommon

Dispossession at Strokestown

Flight of the Earls

Flight of the Wild Geese

Service for King Phillip of Spain

Governance of Cuba

Tracing other O'Connor Roes

Penal Laws

Roger O'Connor Roe -Governor of Port of Rome.

Luke O'Connor  1st VC  at Sevastobol

Irish in the British Army.

The Spanish Peninsular Wars



Special References

The Hidden History of the Peninsular War - Wellington's Irish Army
(A highly insigtful truthful about the British Army in Europe)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhhvOwQeo0Y&t=92s

Irish Cuban connections
https://www.irlandeses.org/0711fernandezmoya1.htm
(note O'Connor was a prominent name in Cuba in the 17th Century
-more anon)

http://www.irishinspain.es/archivos/Spanish_Irish_Historical_Titles.pdf