Researched and written by James R. O’Hagan
An Irish boy, Hugh O’Neill, is given up for his own safety and raised in England by a Crown official. Barely out of his youth, he returns to Ireland in the service of Queen Elizabeth. He is to serve as a loyal counterweight against a murderous and rebellious uncle Sean O’Neill, who rules Gaelic Ulster in defiance of England.
There can be only one survivor.
PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS
The Principal Characters are the larger-than-life figures of the Elizabethan and Gaelic World– kings, queens, popes, noblemen and noblewomen, priests, pirates, soldiers, sailors, saints, scholars, adventurers, spies and rogues. Together, they unwittingly brought about the destruction of the old world and replaced it with modernity.
All are conflicted by religious righteousness, humanistic principles, greed, vaulting ambition, a desire for national identity, and feudal and dynastic claims. Those of noble birth lay claim to high office as a right. Others from humble origins must use their superior intelligence, bravado and ice-cool judgement to rise from relative obscurity to contend for power and influence in what becomes a deadly game.
All are brought to life in this historical fiction series which helps free them from the many distortions of centuries-old stereotypical prejudices and national myths.
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Adam Loftus (1533 – 1605) -
Alonso Perez de Guman (1550 – 1615) -
Alvaro de Bazan (1526 – 1588) -
Antonio Ghislieri (1504 – 1572) -
Camillo Borghese (1550 – 1621) -
Catherine de’ Medici (1519 – 1589) -
Charles Blount (1563 – 1606) -
Don Juan Del Águila y Arellano (1545 – 1602) -
Edmund Spenser (1552 – 1599) -
Elizabeth I (1533 – 1603) -
Felice Piergentile (1521 – 1590) -
Fernando Alvarez de Toledo y Pimentel (1507 – 1582) -
Sir Francis Drake (1540 – 1596) -
Sir Francis Walsingham (1532 – 1590) -
Gerald FitzGerald (1533 – 1583) 15th -
Grace O'Malley (1530 – 1603) -
Henri I (1550 – 1588) -
Henri IV (1553 – 1610) -
Henry Hastings (1536 – 1595) -
Sir Henry Sidney (1529 – 1586) -
Henry Stuart (1545 – 1567) -
Hugh O’Neill (1550 – 1616) -
Hugh Roe O'Donnell (1572 – 1602) -
Sir Humphrey Gilbert (1539 – 1583) -
Ippolito Aldobrandini (1536 – 1605) -
James Charles Stuart (1566 – 1625) -
Lady Agnes Campbell (1526 – 1601) -
James Hepburn (1534 – 1578) -
John Knox (1514 – 1572) -
Sir Martin Frobisher (1535 – 1594) -
Mary Stuart (1542 – 1587) -
Sir Peter Carew (1514 – 1575) -
Philip II (1527 – 1598) -
Philip III (1578 – 1621) -
Robert Devereux (1565 – 1601) -
Robert Dudley (1532 – 1588) -
Thomas Butler (1531 – 1614) -
Thomas Howard (1536 – 1572) -
Thomas Percy (1528 – 1572) -
Ugo Boncompagni (1572 – 1585) -
Walter Devereux (1541 – 1576) -
Sir Walter Raleigh (1552 – 1618) -
William Cecil (1520 – 1598) -
William the Silent (1533 – 1584)
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