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Richard Boyle (1566–1643) – The Great Earl of Cork
Without question, Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, was the dominant figure on Ireland’s Blackwater Valley for the first forty years of the 17th century. Indeed, the entrepreneur from Canterbury was one of the most extraordinary and powerful characters in Western Europe during this time. This essay is contextually angled towards his relationship to the […]