Kinsale

Duke of Ormonda tried to eliminate the parliamentary army holding Dublin by laying siege in 1649, but their opponents routed them at the Battle of Rathmans .

Admiral Robert Blake, a former Member of Parliament, had blockaded Prince Rupert's fleet in Kinsale, enabling Oliver Cromwell to land at Dublin on August 15, 1649 with an army to quell the Royalist Alliance.

Cromwell's suppression of the Royalists in Ireland in 1649 is still remembered by the Irish.

After the siege of Drogheda, the massacre of nearly 3,500 people, around 2,700 royalist soldiers and 700 others, including civilians, prisoners, and Catholic priests, all of whom Cromwell claimed had carried arms, became one of the historical memories that has driven Irish English and Catholic Protestant strife during the last three centuries.

Yes, I was born in Northern Ireland, just north of Belfast, very small little Protestant working class town there, and very proud to think back to my upbringing.

Again, another beautiful place, and more down in the South Cork, Kinsale area.

Gorgeous.

Beautiful.

And then on the 4th of December, we're heading to Banterre, to the Maritime Hotel.

And I did have a show in with Kinsale on this tour, but we had to change that.

But it's now...

January.

down around a local graveyard in Glanmire that's known for a white woman who regularly appears, the spectre of her.

But they also talk about the white lady down in Kinsale.

That's too far away from you, these kind of stories.

Too far.

They're absolutely super talented, these two Cove sisters.

And they're at the Marina Market from the 31st of October to the 1st of November and back again from the 7th until the 8th.

And they also stock all of their candles in Cove, Kinsale and Passage West.

Check them out, actually, and support them.

And here's a little clip from that.

When I was on with you last year, we were getting ready to do a big fundraiser down in Kinsale.

And when we were at that event, my two daughters, Leisha and Warren, came down to hear me speak.

And they had never heard me speak before.