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Article: In the Armada's wake
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 17, 2009
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Northern Ireland Simon Calder traces Spanish gold from Antrim's
coast to Belfast, then sums up the city's appeal
Today, the jagged finger of rock that jabs north from the coast
of County Antrim constitutes part of Ireland's most spectacular
shoreline. Lacada Point stands barely a mile east of Northern
Ireland's geological icon, the Giant's Causeway. Beyond that
familiar, naturally hexagonal masonry lie dangerous waters that
sailors accustomed to Ulster's coast have long known about. Four
centuries ago, though, they claimed a Spanish warship and 1,300
lives.
The Girona, a galleass (powered by both sails and oars) was part
of the Armada: 131 ships despatched by Philip II as part of an ...