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I really hope they find him and we get his dna.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52832801Red Hugh O'Donnell was chieftain of the O'Donnell clan, a powerful dynasty based in what is now County Donegal in north west Ireland.
He helped to score a number of significant victories over the forces of Queen Elizabeth I, forming alliances with other clans to pose a serious challenge to English power in Ireland.
He is often a romanticised figure and his exploits even inspired a 1960s Disney movie - The Fighting Prince of Donegal.
As a boy of 15, Red Hugh was kidnapped and held hostage in Dublin Castle to discourage his family from rebelling against the crown.
He escaped five years later with the help of another Irish chieftain, Hugh O'Neill, his future father-in-law.
But as he fled home across the mountains in winter, Red Hugh suffered severe frostbite and lost a big toe from each foot.
The O'Donnell and O'Neill clans were rivals, but they joined forces against the English in a series of battles known as the Nine Years War.
In 1601, they persuaded Spain's Catholic King Phillip III to send thousands of troops to Ireland to help fight their common enemy - the Protestant Elizabeth I.
But when Spanish ships arrived in County Cork, English troops surrounded the port of Kinsale and hundreds of Spaniards died in the siege.
After suffering a heavy defeat at the Battle of Kinsale, Red Hugh travelled to Spain to ask the king to send more soldiers.
O'Donnell died before his plea was answered - some accounts say he was poisoned by an English spy while others say he succumbed to infection.
His body was taken to the king's palace in Valladolid, once the capital of Spain, where palace guards and state officials attended his funeral.
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