9781856354431-1856354431-Pirate Queen: The Life of Grace O'malley

Pirate Queen: The Life of Grace O'malley

ISBN-13: 9781856354431
ISBN-10: 1856354431
Author: Judith Cook
Publication date: 2004
Publisher: Mercier Press
Format: Paperback 320 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781856354431
ISBN-10: 1856354431
Author: Judith Cook
Publication date: 2004
Publisher: Mercier Press
Format: Paperback 320 pages

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Pirate Queen: The Life of Grace O'malley (ISBN-13: 9781856354431 and ISBN-10: 1856354431), written by authors Judith Cook, was published by Mercier Press in 2004. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other Europe (Historical, Military, Leaders & Notable People, Political, Crime & Criminals, Specific Groups, European History, Women in History, World History, Women's Studies) books. You can easily purchase or rent Pirate Queen: The Life of Grace O'malley (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Europe books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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In a life stranger than any fiction, Grace O'Malley, daughter of a clan chief in County Mayo, went from marriage at fifteen to piracy on the high seas. She had a fleet of galleys under her command (four of them Scots). In 1559 her husband was killed in an ambush and not long after she took as a lover a survivor of a shipwreck. Clansmen came over from Scotland and murdered him. She tracked them down and had them killed, and from then on follow episodes of plunder, kidnapping, piracy and general mayhem. In 1586 she was captured by the Earl of Ormond and was actually on the scaffold with a rope around her neck when she was saved on the orders of Queen Elizabeth. Elizabeth offered to make her a countess. Grace refused, but was officially allowed to be a 'privateer' thereafter. She may also have been an intelligencer for Elizab

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