{"id":37530,"date":"2018-09-24T06:47:27","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T04:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=37530"},"modified":"2018-09-25T23:37:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T21:37:41","slug":"touching-homage-of-an-irish-village-to-the-fallen-of-the-spanish-armada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2018\/09\/24\/touching-homage-of-an-irish-village-to-the-fallen-of-the-spanish-armada\/","title":{"rendered":"Touching Homage of an Irish Village to the Fallen of the Spanish Armada"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Saturday, in County Sligo (Ireland), the current flag of Spain and the Spanish Imperial flag were hoisted to remember the Spaniards who were shipwrecked there on September 26, 1588.<\/p>\n

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As I told you here<\/a> last year, the waters near the Streedagh Beach were those that swallowed three Spanish ships, the Lavia, the Juliana and the Santa Mar\u00eda de Mink<\/strong>, which were part of the famous Great Spanish Armada, an expedition that the English propaganda baptized, with burlesque spirit, as the \"Invincible Armada\". Then Ireland was in the hands of the English and they executed 150 of the castaways who managed to reach the coast. Of the 1,800 crew members of the three ships there were only a hundred survivors, who were saved thanks to the help of Irish Catholics.<\/strong><\/p>\n


\n(Photo: Spanish Navy<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n

The descendants of those Irish people remember the Spanish shipwrecked year after year.<\/strong> This time, the Spanish Navy sent a ship to that place to participate in the tribute to their fallen, which arrived in Ireland on Thursday, September 20. Like the \"Centinela\" two years ago<\/a> and the \"Arnomendi\" in 2017<\/a>, this weekend the patrol boat \"Atalaya\" hoisted the flag that waved the Spanish ships of the Spanish Armada<\/strong>, red, white and yellow, with an eagle stamped by a crown and surrounded by the Golden Fleece. Shortly after his arrival in Ireland, the commander of the \"Atalaya\", Corvette Captain \u00c1lvaro Calder\u00f3n Izquierdo, received on board Eddie O'Gorman, president of the<\/strong> Grange and Armada Development Association<\/a>, the entity that organizes the tribute to the Spanish shipwrecked, which gave our sailors the welcome to Ireland.<\/p>\n


\n(Photo: Spanish Armada Ireland<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n

Captain Calder\u00f3n and other crew of the Spanish ship disembarked on September 21<\/strong> to participate in the commemorative events that took place on Saturday in the town of Grange, in the framework of \"Remembering the Armada Festival\", in which also participated the second head of the Embassy of Spain in Dublin, Javier Gonz\u00e1lez Sanjuan, the Minister of Justice of Ireland, Charlie Flanagan, and representatives of the Irish Naval Service. One of the most special moments was the inauguration of a museum dedicated to the Spanish Armada in Grange.<\/strong><\/p>\n


\n(Photo: Spanish Armada Ireland<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n

During the inauguration, Captain Calder\u00f3n thanked the organizers of this tribute to the Spanish castaways<\/strong>, referring to the ties between Spain and Ireland.<\/p>\n