Grace O'Malley (Pirate)

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Grace O'Malley



The Most Badass Lady Pirate You've Never Heard Of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv_sHpMnZSI

Weird History
3 May 2020

Contrary to popular belief, not all pirates hobbled on peg-legs with talking parrots perched on their shoulders, patches covering their eyes, and broad West Country accents sharpening their vowels. One of the most important, fascinating, and relatively forgotten pirates was actually a woman, known to history as the so-called "Pirate Queen."

There have been other lady pirates in history, but perhaps none as significant as Gráinne Ní Mháille, better known by the Anglicized version of her Irish name, Grace O'Malley. She was born in western Ireland around 1530. Though brought up in a life of relative privilege and wealth, she also faced limitations on her ambitions. The Ireland of her birth was one of eroding independence, as England sought to exert more and more influence over the island to its west.

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Dr Kat and Grace O'Malley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9gAv_1fXb

Reading the Past
16 Aug 2019

Grace O'Malley (Granuaile) is known by many as Ireland's Pirate Queen - but what is known of this remarkable woman? Where does the myth give way to the facts?


https://www.worldhistory.org/Grace_O'Malley/

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Pirate Queen: The Legend of Grace O’Malley

https://historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/pirate-queen-the-legend-of-grace-omalley/

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The extraordinary life of Grace O'Malley
https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/grace-o-malley-pirate-history-fact-fiction-legend

Discover the story of the pioneering 16th century seafarer – and her links with Greenwich