Hugh Ruadh O'Donnell had been over four years eating out his heart in prison in Dublin Castle. He was a man grown now, twenty years of age, and he longed for freedom and revenge. ' On Christmas night, 1591, " it seemed to the Son of the Virgin full time that he should escape," and he and his fellow-prisoner, Art O'Neill, son of Shane, let themselves down by a rope from a window of the Castle. Outside, a servant had been awaiting ... Read More