Pirate Queen
The Life of Grace O'Malley
Published on 6. May 2021
208 pages
978-0-85790-311-2 (ISBN)
Description
In a life stranger than any fiction, Grace O'Malley, daughter of a clan chief in the far west of Ireland, went from marriage at fifteen to piracy on the high seas. She soon had a fleet of galleys under her commander, but her three decades of plundering, kidnapping, murder and mayhem came to a close in 1586, when she was captured and sentenced to hang.
Saved from the scaffold by none other than Queen Elizabeth herself - another powerful woman in a man's world - Grace's life took another extraordinary turn, when it was rumoured she had become intelligencer for the queen's spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham. Was this the price of her freedom?
Judith Cook explores this and other questions about the life and times of this remarkable woman in a fascinating, thrilling and impeccably researched book.
Saved from the scaffold by none other than Queen Elizabeth herself - another powerful woman in a man's world - Grace's life took another extraordinary turn, when it was rumoured she had become intelligencer for the queen's spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham. Was this the price of her freedom?
Judith Cook explores this and other questions about the life and times of this remarkable woman in a fascinating, thrilling and impeccably researched book.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Birlinn General
File size
1,97 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-85790-311-2 (9780857903112)
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Person
Well-known for her columns in the Guardian's women's page and as an anti-nuclear campaigner (she founded the organisation Voice of Women after the Cuban missile crisis of 1962), Judith Cook was also a prolific biographer and investigative journalist. Her subjects included J.B. Priestley, Daphne du Maurier and Hilda Murrell, the anti-nuclear campaigner who died in mysterious circumstances1985. Born in Manchester, Judith Cook lived for many years in Cornwall, where she died in 2004.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Map
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Momentous and Dangerous Times
- 2. The 'Crop-Haired Girl'
- 3. Bride to the Ferocious O'Flaherties
- 4. Revenge and Piracy
- 5. The Pirate Queen
- 6. 'Iron Richard'
- 7. Captured!
- 8. Grace of the Gamblers
- 9. '. . . She Thinks Herself No Small Lady . . .'
- 10. Drawing in the Scots - the Shadow of the Gallows
- 11. The Spanish Armada
- 12. Rebellion
- 13. Talking to the Queen
- 14. The O'Neill - War in Ulster
- 15. Endgame - The Flight of the Wild Geese
- Appendix One. Queen Elizabeth's Representatives in Ireland
- Appendix Two. The Eighteen Articles of Interrogation and the Responses
- Bibliography
- Index
