By Donal McMahon A Newry historian has played a key role in the Spanish search for the remains one of the great tragic heroes of history labelled the Irish William Wallace. The historical magnitude of a potential find of the 17th century Irish chieftain Red Hugh O’Donnell is said by…...

Fr Kevin Hegarty Christmas Eve 1601 marks the end of the Gaelic political power in Ireland. It is the date of the Battle of Kinsale when Hugh O’Neill and the Red Hugh O’Donnell were defeated in their efforts to prevent the Tudor subjugation of the country. They travelled from Ulster…...

An archaeologist works in an excavation carried out by the Hispano-Irish Association in a ruined chapel in Valladolid. Photos: AFP Forensic experts will begin testing 15 skeletons uncovered at an ancient Spanish chapel this week to see if any belong to 16th-century Irish rebel chief Red Hugh O’Donnell. The discovery…...

June 2, 2020 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE   This undated photo from Calle Constitución (Constitution Street) in Valladolid, Spain, shows the archaeological excavation of the Chapel of Wonders, a Franciscan monastery believed to been the last resting place of Ireland’s so-called fighting prince of Donegal. (Valladolid City Hall photo/Carlos Arranz via Courthouse…...

By James Rogers | Fox News.  JUNE 1 2020 Archaeologists in Spain are searching for the bones of Red Hugh O’Donnell, a 16th-century Irish chieftain who fought English rule in Ireland and died in exile. Born into a noble family, Red Hugh O’Donnell is known as ‘Red Hugh’ as a…...