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James "Spanish" Blake
From a Galway merchant family, Blake moved in the murky world of international intrigue as an agent for, variously, the Irish, English, French and Spanish during the Nine Years War in the 1590s. He is credited with the assassination of Red Hugh O'Donnell in Spain in 1601.
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